Cyril Connolly Quotes
Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
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In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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It's kind of fun to be sexy.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.
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P. 25-26.
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Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.
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I have a Pomeranian dog named Nutmeg - a combination of the soccer move and the colour. It's perfect.
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I usually know the general emotion of a song, or the general feeling of it, and then I think I just get so excited by the act of recording. I love that process so much that I feel like if I knew exactly what I wanted I'd arrive at something too soon. Part of the reason I work on stuff for so long is just because I love working on it. It's not that I'm haunted by some ghost sound. I just have nothing else to do with my life. Some people like to obsessively shop online. I like to obsessively rack up studio bills.
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All Indians must dance, everywhere keep on dancing.
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Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
