Charlie Watts Quotes
I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them.
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The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.
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I just couldn't live without dogs.
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I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
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I'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!'
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But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.
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I try to invest smart. I'm not a baller. I'm not a blinger.
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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I just love to dance. Pretty much every night, I'll just turn on the radio in my room and dance like crazy.
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I like getting to the meat of things. You can't get it in a five-minute interview. I like to hone a person. I like to make eye contact.
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People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
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You don't want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I've done later in the week.
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I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.
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When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
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An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
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I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.
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What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
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I worked my way through the education system and was treated as though I had value.
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Writing in a strict form can surprise you.
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As children, we think that whatever world surrounds us is normal. As I entered fourth and fifth grades and began spending time in the homes of other kids, my world grew. I spent a lot of time watching and thinking about the way people interacted with other people. I began to see that not all families were like mine.
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On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.
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For so much of my life, I lived feeling as if, if I spoke, if I said something, I would lose everything. I would be pushed out. No one will want me. No one will love me. No one would want to be friends with me. It took me decades to get to a space of saying, 'This is my truth. This is who I am, and I don't care if you like me or you don't like me.'
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Once you start succeeding, you start dreaming big. For me, it was that way.
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I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them.
