Gnarly Quotes: Offbeat Takes on Language and Life
Odd word, sharp opinions
Not every gnarly detail described here is conventionally Beautiful - several speakers embrace roughness as its own kind of honesty.
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.
We need to figure out a 'harvest system' to collect the produce that stores don't put out for customers to buy because it's not perfect looking. Frankly, the stuff left to rot in the storeroom is more beautiful to me...
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There was an obvious display of blatant sexism when I couldn't get signed. They didn't say I was ugly. They didn't say that they didn't like the music. They said I was too old! At 26! So Badly Drawn Boy,...
I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what that tells you. People who look like... they're waiting for a sandwich that's never going to come. I don't know what's wrong...
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In documentary, mostly, people are going to say untoward things; people are going to have gnarly beliefs. People aren't perfect.
I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man's bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they're not well manicured, you've got to wonder what the rest of him is like....
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One quote calls out Blatant sexism faced in the music business, adding a sharper edge to this otherwise playful collection.
