Tom Hodgkinson Quotes

Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.

Tom Hodgkinson

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My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.

Jimmy Iovine

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I like how pure the expression is in music. You can go straight to the heart of an audience rather than through their brain.

John C. Reilly

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And I love the idea of spending the whole day in bed with my lover.

Jennifer Lopez

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People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, 'No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,' that shows I'm an eternal optimist.

John Grant

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Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

Anna Quindlen

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Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

Stephen Fry

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What God wants is for us to live by His rules, resulting in the receiving of His blessing and power. When we as Christians, celebrating our differences, join together as the house of God representing the kingdom of God for the glory of God, we get the response of God to our presence in history.

Tony Evans

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There's a wide range today of documentaries on politics. The central mass of it is made by networks, and nothing's changed.

Robert Drew

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The thing with acting is I'm at the liberty of someone who wants to book me. With music, I can do it all the time. With acting, I could, too, if I wanted to write a script and do that whole thing, but music is a constant thing. Acting, I have to audition.

Ross Lynch

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There were many times during our career when he could've quit and done something else. But he knew that his power was with the Grateful Dead. He didn't want to go solo. Jerry was a groupist. He loved to group.

Mickey Hart

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I've known from a very early age that singing was what I was supposed to do. There was this unmistaken, undeniable passion within me to sing country music.

Josh Turner

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Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law.

Joseph Prince

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