- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
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- Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm continuing to learn more about music - it's an ocean, and you can never really say that you know everything. I'm grateful that I'm still living and making music among the greats.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective.
- Honesty
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020