Neil Gaiman Quotes
I'd never heard anything like it before. It was like banshee music. This absolutely otherworldly voice, singing about a book, and as a bookish kid, I was always fascinated by anything, any music that seems to be about or inspired by books.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
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It's not like during your normal day, anyone says, 'How do having meaning in your life? How do you make meaning in your life?'
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I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.
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However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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I'd never heard anything like it before. It was like banshee music. This absolutely otherworldly voice, singing about a book, and as a bookish kid, I was always fascinated by anything, any music that seems to be about or inspired by books.
