Jim Paredes quotes

“Only those who have awakened know that they were sleeping.”
-- Jim Paredes

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“We were all ready to die for the country but what we did not discover was we have to live for the country.”
-- Jim Paredes

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“Tagalog sounds like boiling water.”
-- Jim Paredes

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“But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of getting to sleep, and, as that was no good, he tried counting Heffalumps. And that was worse. Because every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey, and eating it all. For some minutes he lay there miserably, but when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better," Pooh could bear it no longer.”

“Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer. But oh, good Lord, the verse you make, It gives a chap the belly-ache. The cow, the old cow, she is dead; It sleeps well the horned head: We poor lads, 'tis our turn now To hear such tunes as killed the cow. Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme Your friends to death before their time. Moping, melancholy mad: Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.”

“Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.”

“Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?”

“There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical and what isn't.”

“If you want to know someone, just look at who they choose to spend their time with.”

“Now, you always know there's going to be some compromise when you're doing something for television, and especially network television.”

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“You have to jump into the pool before you know whether there's water in it.”

“It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.”

Source : "Angel Olsen is in complete control". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2016.

“People have always thought I was "on" something. After a while I began to think they knew something I didn't know! But I don't know, I just love living. And I love doing what I do.”

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