Alex Kapranos Quotes

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

Alex Kapranos

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GoodBestCreativeYouDownEditing

I do have to say, there is this incredible benefit to being older. I never thought I'd say that. I've figured out that show business isn't the end-all. I thought I'd never be tired of Hollywood, of the experience, and I have to say there's some relief. As you get older, your taste changes.

Jennifer Coolidge

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I usually have my protein at lunch and my carbs at night - I don't mix protein and carbs.

Jenny McCarthy

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We are on this planet but once, and to spend it holding back our gushing appreciation of the things that light us up is a shameful waste.

Jen Sincero

LightAppreciationBackUpPlanet

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Andrew Lang

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Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.

John Malkovich

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You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.

Maurice Sendak

LifeMeBelieveYouKnowShe

You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book.

Michael Cunningham

GreatFireBookEndYouDark

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.

Tom Hooper

GoldThinkBecomeEverythingBeing

I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.

Roy Acuff

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I have made mistakes.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

MistakesMade

I'm interested in the economy of words and forms: jokes, aphorisms, copywriting, advertising, that way of writing when meaning has to be squeezed into as few words as possible.

Martine Syms

WordsWritingAdvertisingMeaning

For me it's all about keeping things simple and feeling comfortable in what I am wearing. I prefer investing in classic well-tailored pieces.

Miranda Kerr

SimpleI AmMeFeelingComfortable

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