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"The first person who really showed me the ugly spirit was Brion Gysin. "The ugly spirit shot Joan because . . ." and I never found out why. This Brion wrote out on a piece of paper in a sort of trance state."
"Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see."
"I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is."
"I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music."
"I think there are pieces of the film [Age Of Trump] that are even more emotionally resonant and more vital to talk about than ever."
"She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece of the city."
"I have one piece of advice for you: sleep your way to the top."
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"It depends. When it's the right scenario, it's just as stimulating and just as exciting for me. It's just a question of finding a piece of material that lights a fire under you."
"Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back."
"My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces."
"An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business."
"Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them"
"Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper."
"Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else."
"He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece."
"Crack'd in pieces by malignant Death."
"The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on."
"If I hear an amazing piece of music, I can't help but think of ideas, choreography, and everything that comes along with it."
"Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge."
