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Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: scottish
Birth: December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881

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Originality Quarrel Constantly Thing

My e-mail address is actually my wife's e-mail address. I actually hate computers.

Hate Wife Computers Actually Address

Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.

Work Time Blue You Will Way

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

Character Fun People Saying You Out

I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.

Music Creating Magical Just Means

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

Music Today Me My Own Listen More

I can only do my thing and do the best that I can.

Best I Can Only Thing

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

Best Think Feel You Know Way

If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.

Integrity Great Money Intelligence

I don't know what's more embarrassing, these musicians and actors talking about politics in interviews or the media actually giving them credibility about it. It's absurd that a celebrity could speak out on the economy or politics with no more justification than a hit album or a movie.

Politics Speak Musicians Talking

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Smart Lawyer Enough Hands Person He

The theatrical marketplace is a challenge. What do you have to do to get someone to purchase a movie ticket to your movie? You have to do something that they've never seen before; you've got to enthrall them in a new way.

Richard Linklater

Challenge Someone You New Way Never

One of my mentors early on was Eli Harari, the founder of SanDisk, who happened to be a friend of my dad's.

Friend Early Mentors Founder Who

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