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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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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David Mamet's writing is pretty spectacular, obviously. I like the honesty of it; I like how funny it is and how sad it is.
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If you look at the current Mosul campaign against ISIL, for example the few thousand troops that we have there to support that effort allows the Iraqi military to move forward in an effective way.
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There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.
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Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.
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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.
