Christopher Atkins Quotes
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As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
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I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.
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You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.
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Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, and will usually take higher rank in school and in after life than his classmate who is the son of a millionaire.
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I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.
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My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.
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There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.
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Hills are unpleasant, so I like to get them over with as quickly as possible.
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My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.
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Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.
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Writers want to be reread. They want to think that their words don't just flash by but deserve some reflection.
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Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas.
