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I kind of roll my eyes when people say they make music for themselves or they make art just for themselves, because, maybe in their head, what that means is that they're making it for someone who they don't think is real. Their audience isn't real. But it's still a communicative act. It's still an outward manifestation of longing.

Arca

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MusicEyesArtPeopleThinkSomeone

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

Maynard Jackson

LiveBestPoliticsNot PerfectMeans

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.

Michael Ignatieff

GoodExperienceWarGood ThingsEnd

The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.

Michael D. Higgins

HeartRespectExcellenceCreative

I want my clothes to be alluring but not uber sexy.

Suki Waterhouse

SexyClothesWantUberAlluring

The most sacred duty of the President of the United States of America is to defend and protect the Constitution and the principles it enshrines: freedom, fairness, and equality.

Tom Steyer

FreedomEqualityConstitutionAmerica

The practice of passing bills to find out what is in them represents a Forrest Gump-box of chocolates approach to government in which the taxpayers never know what they are going to get.

Ron DeSantis

GovernmentPracticeFindKnowNever

When I interviewed profilers in 1984 in the basement of the FBI Academy at Quantico, VA., there were just four of them - Roger Depue, John Douglas, Roy Hazelwood, and Robert Ressler.

Ronald Kessler

FBIJustFourBasementThemAcademy

It's always nice to have people say you're good-looking. But I do get told I'm not right for parts because I'm too good-looking.

Rupert Penry-Jones

PeopleYouGood-LookingNiceSay

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

Mohsin Hamid

PaintingBookCreateRatherThan

There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that one of the most important questions to ask yourself when you begin writing a story is this: Whose story is it? You need to make a commitment to one or perhaps a few characters.

Julia Glass

CommitmentYourselfWritingStory

I think 'Bittersweet' is one of the best songs ever written. The idea of it just really spoke to me.

Joshua Ostrander

BestMeThinkBittersweetJustIdea

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

Diogenes

SunThemTooPolluted

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