Havens Quotes - Page 20

• I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Writing, Order, Paint

  "‘No, I don’t paint anymore’ – Bookmunch Classic Interview: Jonathan Lethem". Interview with Peter Wild, bookmunch.wordpress.com. October 31, 2013.

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• Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.

  Leon Panetta

  Country, Safe Haven, Winning

  'This Week' with Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. June 27, 2010.

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• And fortunately, I haven't had any problem with my voice. I've been able to sing at a level of consistency that the people are expecting.

  Johnny Mathis

  Voice, People, Consistency

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• Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.

  Boy George

  Divorce, Gay, Thinking

  The London Evening Standard, February 20, 2006.

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• If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.

  Diana Vreeland

  Passion, Fire, Burning

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• If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.

  Harry Browne

  Government, People, Charity

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• I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, Pages, Six

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• I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Hustle, Band, Records

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• It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.

  Robert Sheckley

  Oregon, Ibiza, Years

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• It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Support, Use, Facts

  "Rupert Murdoch Has Potential". www.esquire.com. September 11, 2008.

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• The pressure of 'what are you going to do?' makes everyone feel like they haven't done anything yet.

  Amy Poehler

  Done, Pressure, Feels

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.82, Pan Macmillan

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• It's tough for parents to talk to children about heavy-weight topics such as peer pressure, drugs and morality if they don't already have a closeness. A parent can't just all of a sudden pick out an hour and talk to a son about being morally clean if the parent and child haven't spent much time together for three or four years. I think closeness is developed more quickly by having fun together.

  David A. Bednar

  Children, Fun, Son

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• I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Thinking, Smell, Want

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• When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.

  Avicii

  Rave, Periods, Electronic Music

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always have a plan, but it’s like the plan for a journey. Once you’re on the road, you change things. If nothing changes, if you end up with something that’s just as you planned it, then you haven’t created art.

  Ernesto Neto

  Art, Journey, Things Change

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• Techno is everything you haven't imagined yet

  Jeff Mills

  Techno

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• I don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it as I've got too many opinions!

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got. With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now, where you don't want to be, and the projected future, where you want to be. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Waiting, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.86, New World Library

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• Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

  Angel Haze

  Rapper, Interesting, Guy

  " Angel Haze: 'Right now, no one can beat me'" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.

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• There are still deep-seated structural problems that threaten the economic balance in the world: Between the United States and China, for example, but also within Europe. We have taken a few steps toward taming the financial markets, but we haven't come nearly far enough to rule out a repetition of the crisis.

  Peer Steinbruck

  Taken, Europe, Balance

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• I haven't even seen you successfully talk to a woman since I've known you, unless of course, you count Alex Riley.

  Edge

  Wwe, Alex, Courses

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• I haven't backed down from a fight in my life, and I won't start tonight.

  John Cena

  Fighting, Wwe, Tonight

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• I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, People, World

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.223, Random House

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• You cannot succeed if at some point you haven't failed.

  Maria Ressa

  Succeed, Ifs

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• If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

  Richard Yates

  Novel, Forty, Written

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