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“Grace is what matters. In anything. Especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. About people, that's what matters. That's a quality I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly; it keeps you from destroying things too foolishly; it sort of keeps you alive and keeps you open for more understanding.”
Source : "Jeff Buckley: Remembered". TV Movie, www.imdb.com. 1999.
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“I think that Governor Romney needs to talk about the fact that what he tried to do in the state of Massachusetts was him seeing what could be best for his state, but maybe it didn't work out as well.”
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“Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.”
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“The art world loves to throw things out and bring new things in. There's always this new circle of artists entering every five years.”
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“I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.”
Source : "Neutral Milk Hotel". Interview with Marci Fierman, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2002.
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“I would ... go up to the mailbox and sit in the grass, waiting. ... Till it came to me one day there were women doing this with their lives, all over. There were women just waiting and waiting by mailboxes for one letter or another. I imagined me making this journey day after day and year after year, and my hair starting to go gray, and I thought, I was never made to go on like that. ... If there were woman all through life waiting, and women busy and not waiting, I knew which I had to be.”
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“In love, 100 pennies do not equal a dollar.”
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“I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combinative with the positional, and I aim to respond to the demands of each given position.”