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Evan Parker Quotes

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: british
Birth: April 5, 1944

Topics

Me Contradictions Concern Many Which

I think it's always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own identity. And also, I think parents get invested in, you know, doing the right thing? And so their anxiety about being good parents might, in a way, affect a relationship negatively.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Good Relationship Children Identity

It doesn't matter what I use. It can be anything. What's interesting is how what I'm doing meets with the stuff I use.

Jessica Stockholder

Interesting Doing Matter Anything

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

John Henry Newman

Men Words Ideas Think Stand Nothing

Many times when we are talking about displacement, we talk about it within the frame of gentrification, which focuses on transitioning neighborhoods. But man, every city I've looked at, Milwaukee included, most evictions are right there, smack dab in ungentrifying, poor, segregated communities.

Matthew Desmond

Man City Talking Poor Talk Right

As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.

Focus Lose Interest Other Authors

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

Children People Present Better Way

A vest, as a clothing item, always makes a statement, but depending on context, those declarations vary a great deal.

Great Always Clothing Context Deal

I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

Life Fun People My Life You Dark

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!

Battle Comedy Never First Minutes

My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.

Work Character Me You Back Mentor

In the early years of America's skyjacking epidemic, the airlines were reluctant to let the FBI attempt to end hijackings by force; they feared that innocents would get caught in the crossfire, thereby sparking a wave of negative publicity.

Brendan I. Koerner

Negative End Wave America Early FBI

I liked Edinburgh as a university in a way that I'd never enjoyed King's College London. I realised after I came to Edinburgh that perhaps it was a mistake to have gone to a college which was bang in the centre of a vast city. It had a bad effect on the social life of the students because a lot of them were commuting from outer London.

Life Mistake King City College Bad

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