The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process. I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult. ~Beth Gibbons
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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There is nothing Dutch about my architecture. ~Rem Koolhaas
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There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. ~Russian Proverb
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The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. ~Mark Twain
#quotes #mark-twain #ignorance #humor

The term "genre" eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. ~Christopher Nolan
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow. ~German Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
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He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible. ~Abraham Lincoln
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. ~Francis Bacon
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. ~French Proverbs
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
#quotes #frank-stella #adults #age #life

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple. ~Japanese Proverb
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A spender gets the property of the hoarder. ~Irish Proverb
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