Going Quotes
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Being a niche kind of artist, you're not going to make a lot of friends in the traditional music biz.
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You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.
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This is what I believe about performing: There is no reason to be on stage - there is no reason to be there - if you're not going to put all your baggage somewhere else and just be honest. Whatever you're doing - screw it up, do great - just be there, and be honest. That's the most important thing.
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They were going for destroying the company.
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I come from a very normal day job, a very normal upbringing, so I had six or seven years working in an office nine to five in human resources. I had the normal life and kind of thought maybe this is what I'm going to do for the rest of my life but still had that passion and that yearning for music.
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I'm going to be on the road for the rest of my life.
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If I get one more person telling me I look like Eliot Spitzer, I'm just going to have to play the guy one day.
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Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go.
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The most important thing for me is to win the fight and not what people are going to say.
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Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.
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One demonstrable effect this type of work can have is in its viral promulgation. Take Kathy Acker for example: her work exists mainly through academic channels. Students are exposed to her novels, and some read her, then, on their own, but some also go to grad school: teach her, write about her, keep her going.
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The question is, what are we going to do about it?
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The farther you go, the less you know.
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There’s no key to the universe, you just have to point your way in one direction, keep going, keep going, keep going, and see what happens.
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In the world of comedy, there's this: "If it's going badly, get off. If it's going well, get off". You can't argue with that either.
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Everything is always going through changes in terms of attitudes or mood.
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Anyone who is going to make anything out of history will, sooner or later, have to do most of the work himself. He will have to read, and consider, and reconsider, and then read some more.
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You don't do anything thinking that it's going to stick.
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If I do what I really want to do, I'm not going to do a typical commercial Broadway show, so I'm going to write what I want to write.
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Nobody knows where jazz is going, because nobody has ever known where jazz was going. I mean, you couldn't possibly predict the Swing Era from the '20's or bebop from the Swing Era or Avant-garde from Bebop, or Effusion, or on and on and on. So, we don't really know where it's going.
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I’m going with Darrelle Revis.
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Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.
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I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.
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I don't speak emotionally about my pictures. That's for other people to do. I will say that I love my photographs. That's what keeps me going.
