"People are looking for fame or a focus, and I can't provide that."

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Source : "Still voice, distant life" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2002.

Will Oldham

#People Quotes #Focus Quotes #Fame Quotes

“A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.”
“When asked by Glenn Beck if people should be allowed to own semi-automatic weapons, Dr. Benjamin Carson said: â€œIt depends on where you live. I think if you live in the midst of a lot of people, and Iâ€™m afraid that that semi-automatic weapon is going to fall into the hands of a crazy person, I would rather you not have it.”
“I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about birds or deserts or tree-crowded forests.”
“At the core of my work there is this eternal back-and-forth between being confined to one's own individuality and that longing to be part of the other, the outside world: the impossibility of ever being able to get beneath another person's skin.”
“Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live”

Source : Song: 9 Elements, Album: Kristyles, 2003
“I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that.”
“Often I forget that design is really about removing things: optimizing the flow of information, the display, so there are the fewest elements possible, but still they preserve the essence of the subject.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all.”

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