Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
Even though I've been an avid consumer of contemporary music since my early teens, the world of rock music has always been at something of a distance - I listen to it, read about it, I talk about it, but I've had little or no contact with its denizens.
It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
I've always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist.
I have been contending all my life, and always with God.
When I was young and I could dream a bit, I could see myself participating in the slam dunk contest. I've always wanted to experience that.
Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.
There's always areas of the game you want to improve. For me, specifically, yards after the catch, making those tough, contested catches.
I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective.
For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.
I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.
Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.
I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.
Fractional reserve banks are sitting ducks and are always subject to contraction. When the banks' state of inherent bankruptcy is discovered, for example, people will tend to cash in their deposits, and the contractionary, deflationary pressure could be severe.
The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.
I always try to find things worth saying, things that are supposed to be said instead of being contrived. I do a ton of writing.
You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
There's always opposition when you do something big. I do many things that are controversial. When people see it, they love it!
