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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I've always wanted to work in America because of those brilliant east-coast political movies of the '70s and '80s - great scripts, wonderful performances, gritty urban parable.
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If I really can be said to have a personal style, I think it is reflected in my taste for the exotic and the unexpected. I like to create rooms which are essentially traditional - and then add touches of the bizarre and the delicious.
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I think on 'Third Watch' that I was the comic relief on a lot of that. I mean, I definitely had dark moments, but people tended to think he was funny even if the character himself wasn't having a fun time.
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Apparently I wasn't in the mood to listen to myself.
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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.
