Washed Out Quotes
I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.
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I don't walk around big headed. I'm not a superstar.
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A good trick I learnt early on is not to immediately look at playback because once you know the shot, you can see when the camera is on you. It's best to stay 'in it' all the time, and just if it's on you, it's on you, and if it's not, it's not. It's the easiest way.
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Whatever I won in cycling, I won with my own skills. I never won anything I couldn't win. For example, I never won a time trial at 60 kph, whereas others have and maybe still do.
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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
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I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.
