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There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.

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It took me a long time, my lifetime so to speak, to realise that the colour of an eye half seen, or the source of some distant sound, are closer to Giudecca in the hell of unknowing than the existence of God, or the origins of protoplasm, or the eistence of self, and even less worthy than these to occupy the wise, It's a bit much, a lifetime, to achieve this consoling conclusion, it doesn't leave you much time to profit by it. Samuel Beckett
Bob Dylan quote: "Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad."
Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad. Bob Dylan
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The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background. Kim Jong Il
By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul. Theodore Bikel
Jamie Luner quote: "It's amazing the hours you pull when you're the lead of a show."
It's amazing the hours you pull when you're the lead of a show. Jamie Luner
I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones. Peter Sarsgaard
Emanuel Swedenborg quote: "Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead."
Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead. Emanuel Swedenborg
Life is a fast, dizzing game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and to feel angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it. Paulo Coelho
we don’t even know what living means now, what it is, and what it is called? Leave us alone without books and we shall be lost and in confusion at once. We shall not know what to join on to, what to cling to, what to love and what to hate, what to respect and what to despise. We are oppressed at being men—men with a real individual body and blood, we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalised man. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I suppose the Valley of the Na, in Always Coming Home, is where I think I'd most like to live; but that's partly because I did live there, all the summers of my childhood. Ursula K. Le Guin
When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically. Ali Larter
Gwen Stefani quote: "I'm lucky to not have a real job, to be able to express..."
I'm lucky to not have a real job, to be able to express myself, be creative and be relevant. Gwen Stefani
Andrew Cuomo quote: "Lesson 1 from Spitzer: Don't alienate the legislature on Day 1."
Lesson 1 from Spitzer: Don't alienate the legislature on Day 1. Andrew Cuomo
Dennis Rodman quote: "I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He..."
I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart. Dennis Rodman
And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.' John Thorn