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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.
I knew nothing of the life of a real musician, of course, but somehow I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.
I don't think I did anything that my contemporaries didn't; it was just that I was the only one who talked about it. In the Sixties anyone who had a sense of style seemed to be gay. I wanted to indentify with that.
The devil told my mind that my thoughts held no power; and this seemed true until my thoughts I began to speak.
John Gummer just did not have the political clout or credibility to rally the troops. I had appointed him as a sort of nightwatchman, but he seemed to have to sleep on the job.
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
We used to have a lot of fun. We got cheated out of a lot of money, but we seemed to enjoy ourselves anyway.
A day came when I should have died, and after that nothing seemed very important. So I have stayed as I am, without regret, separated from the normal human condition.
Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.
I always felt that when people found things that they didn't like about me, it seemed to distance them from me.
Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?
I changed it to Leslie Hill, only that seemed more like a cocktail pianist. Eventually, being an admirer of Jack Benny, I took his name.
Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.
When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.
Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
In fact, a lot of critics seemed to consider R.E.M. the first American music since the '60s to break out on its own and develop a stand-alone sound.
Howard Hughes was obsessed with me. But at first it seemed as if he were offering me a superb career opportunity.
None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing
I was always interested in being a writer. Yet, at the time, it somehow seemed more unfeasible to be a writer than a musician.
To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow and cracked determinism.
It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.
Even though he was afraid to admit it, when he was with her it seemed it was worth doing all those normal things that normal people do.
Hosting 'SNL' was something I'd always wanted to do. The show allowed me to play to my strengths - mixing music with comedy seemed like a way into that world.
Left Bank Astana was beautiful at night, each building, it seemed, with its own nighttime color scheme and the street lamps all going full blast.
Just when I got out of school, I seemed to get hired for a lot of dramatic things, and people tend to remember you how they've seen you the first time.
That's what I'd call him if he was my dog. Jacket-humper. Kinda had a ring to it. Although it seemed a little long for vet visits and intros to lady dogs.
I was bored at school and bored in a lot of the kitchens. It seemed like all I was doing was putting things into saute pans.
I believe in 'Hard Livin'.' The song has a lot of potential. I sang it on the road for about a year before I put it on an album. The crowds really seemed to like it.
When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
For the longest time, people would say to me that I didn't feel very modern, that I seemed from another time.
I couldn't deliver a joke if you asked me to. It would have to be live and spontaneous. And that's what I was able to have in New York, at 9 o'clock in the morning, and people all over the country seemed to respond to it.
Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.
I was in a band at school, and almost from the day we started, I started writing songs, just because that seemed what you did.
The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.
There's nothing more satisfying than having an idea and seeing it through to find out that, not only did you like it, but the audience and critics all seemed to agree.
As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.
It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
There was a rock in front of my hut, a tall, gray rock. By its looks it seemed to be well-disposed toward me.
It took like 5 hours to complete my virgin Mary. I was raised Catholic and it seemed like a good idea.
I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.
I've had an unusual career in that I've never had a big break, but the rent always seemed to get paid.
In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.
I watched Anderson Cooper 360 for a year before I realized that the second hour was a repeat of the first. I just thought his reporting seemed familiar.
I've never seen anyone deal in a literary way with what it takes to stay married for more than 50 years, and that seemed like a worthy goal.
Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.
TV shows are built on relationships, and it seemed kind of odd to make a show without any relationships in it.
I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
I went and studied graphic design, because it seemed to me that advertising is more honest - the image actually has a function. But once I started on that, I realized that was really boring.
I lived in LA for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.
Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.
When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
I always sort of swooned at the sight of the classic barn structures in central and northern Minnesota, where everything seemed rustic and weathered and made to age gracefully.
I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.
The only time I penetrated Tony Blair's defenses over Iraq was by keeping eye contact while telling him he never seemed to by sorry
I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous.
Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
I'm not trying to look for pity or sympathy. I was just surprised that so many people in the world of entertainment seemed to be okay with misogyny and homophobia as long as they were profiting from it.
Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.
