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"What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done."
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"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment."
"All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile."
"What I'm saying... I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary."
"Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully."
"You know what's the worst? Having realistic, ordinary expectations taken out of your reach by seemingly unrealistic, extraordinary circumstances."
"Disappointment is the end of an illusion."
"I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role."
"Disappointment has quite a penchant for taking one by a surprise."
"I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment."
"You see, until then I'd been driven. I'd had a true quest, a purpose beyond my function - and then suddenly, the quest was over. I felt... drained. Disappointed. Let down.Does that make sense? I had been sure that as soon as I had everything back I'd feel good. But inside I felt worse than when I stared."
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"I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question."
"This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome."
"I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper."
"I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers."
"In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead."
"People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know."
"In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made."
"I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians."
"I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so."
"I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology."
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