"Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and……" — Russell Smith
"Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature."
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39 Quotes by Russell Smith
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Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is…
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I would rather be nuts than unattractive.
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There is something insouciant and boyish about the sockless ankle in summer.
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What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the…
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The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a…
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The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age…
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Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without…
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Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There…
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I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future…
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Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who…
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Fashion has always been in conflict with convention. Style involves some knowledge of both. But you can pretty much forget…
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My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or…
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More Addictions Quotes
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one of 83 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
— Lara Flynn Boyle
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Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.
— Robert Breault
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Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference:
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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We see things not as they are, but as we are. Your addictions distort how you process the enormous flow…
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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By tuning in to your minute-to-minute stream of consciousness, you discover the addictions that make you worried, anxious, resentful, uptight,…
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Facing personal truths and purging yourself of addictions or manipulative habits require strength, courage, humility, faith, and other qualities of…
— Caroline Myss
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When you look in the mirror and hate what you see, you need addictions to survive.
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Your attitude is more important than the events happening around you. Artists develop a syndrome taught in art schools. It…
— Jack White
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We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was…
— Izzy Stradlin
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I was just taking out my trash and I had, like, 300 cans of Diet Coke. It was just like,…
— Robert Pattinson
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Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they…
— Judith Wright
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