Clive Sinclair Quotes
I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
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I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.
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The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.
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I always want to live long enough to finish the book I'm working on and see it published. But then I start another book before the previous one is in the stores, so I always have a reason to go on.
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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
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Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
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I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.
