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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

Artist Difficult Easiest Journalist
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

Mistake Room Company Feel
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

About Asleep Census Certainly
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Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Audience Bad Getting Good
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And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

Artists Bit Cases Country
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Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

Different Everybody Everything Experiences
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I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

British Felt Identity Interested
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I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity.

About British Designers Going
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Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.

Above Communism Compassion Everywhere
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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

Artist Frequently Frighten Great
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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Before Breakfast Day Discard
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It's very hard to describe your own style. And I'm young, so I'm still experimenting. But I think it's quite British and very much about individuality.

About British Describe Experimenting
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There is nothing more soul-satisfying than the first succulent bite into the juicy frankfurter.

Souls Firsts Juicy
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I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.

Even Went So Far
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We may all be a peculiar lot...often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work...but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square.

Squares Peculiar Balls World
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It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

Away Back Come Depends
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Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
Angel Devils Must Print
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That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

Any Artist Depression Good
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You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

About Anger Angry Get
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I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.

Love My Weight Body
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When I'm picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced. There's nothing worse than watching an artist try and sell a song that isn't believable coming from them.

When Picking Songs For
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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

Company Drawing Feel Full
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Celebrity Merit Punishment Talent
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Streaming is a really big market for me. We've been doing great in the streaming market, so it's not something I want to alienate at all. Streaming counts now. They're treating artists the way we deserve to be treated.

Alienate Artists Been Big
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All my favorite artists and fashion icons and models are from the Nineties. Everybody was just so fearless.

Artists Everybody Fashion Favorite
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Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either!
Artist Author Badly Either
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Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

Back Chemistry Color Convinced
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Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.
Extremely Implications Moral Scientists
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I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. It's as though I had taken over the family Esso station.

Am Artists Arts Been
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My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

Any Artist Express Feel
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These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

About Again Artists Cannot
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I've had mixtapes that have been better than albums I've heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

Albums Artists Been Better
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When children are exposed to advertisements for unhealthy food, they will, in turn, consume significantly unhealthier rather than healthy calories as a result.

Advertisement Calories Children Consume
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My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

Mother Encouraged Me To
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Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

Bondage Disguise Our Rules
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It's a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

Artist Ask Away Being
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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

Product Scientific Imagination Vision
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Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances
Work Art Trick Artist
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.

Baptist Beauty Care Eager
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Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Become Becoming Best Capable
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Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

Become Best Capable Direct
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I get sensationalism, I get gossip, I understand that. If I'm at the dentist, I'll flip through those magazines as well. But it's especially annoying when it's something that is too much.

Get Sensationalism Get Gossip
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The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

Always Been British Constitution
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True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.

Understanding Patriotism True Patriotism
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As an artist, you always want to never forget where you come from.

Always Artist Come Forget
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It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have... we always want more.

Always Even Like Lot
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I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.

Virgo Fall Keep Satisfied
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Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop for the past 10 years. It's the way we advertise our music to the public for free.

Pretty Free Important While
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You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

Music Process Artist Singles
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I feel like I'm one of the more creative artists in the game. I think I'm going to be here for a while.

Feel Game Artists Creative
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