Past Quotes
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It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything. If I could, I'd completely rewrite Fargo Rock City, and every sentence would be just slightly different. In all likelihood, most of them wouldn't be any better. Some of them would just be changed back to whatever form they used to be, before I second-guessed myself the first time.
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I think once you're past 30 you shouldn't wear a lot of glitter.
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If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?
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My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.
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To build up a future, you have to know the past.
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It often happens that you leave your house in the dark, shoot on a sound stage without natural lighting, and then go home in the dark. A whole week can go past, and it can feel like 12 hours.
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You have to, as an individual, know how to tune that stage of your life that's in the past out.
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I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.
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Unfortunately, I've gotten so conditioned, it's hard to sleep past 4 a.m.
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I think 'tradition' is in the past - and how can someone really 'fear' a color? A man may prefer navy to turquoise, but a self assured man could wear any color and he knows that. It's a distinction of confidence.
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Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.
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Cobbled streets and no shops open past six o'clock, a communal life that seemed to revolve around church, and where you could often hear bird song and nothing else: Gaia felt as though she had fallen through a portal into a land lost in time.
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I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.
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You cannot undo the past; you can only learn to live with it, find some way of making peace with it, and move on.
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My views on music, and life in general, are completely out of step with everything that's going on. I've always been out of step. The only thing that interests me is history, reviewing the past and making something out of it.
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Many significant changes and events have occurred in the past two decades.
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It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected.
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When I came back, I wasn't looking past this year. This is a bonus for me. I just wish it would have turned out a little better, but we all don't get what we want all the time.
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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
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All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.
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As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.
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There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.
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Never allow other people to classify you based on your past and current circumstances, where you were born, your experiences, your gender, or your race.
