Charlie Watts Quotes
I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
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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 always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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I like to build things. I like to do things.
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Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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God does arithmetic.
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If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
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I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well.
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I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.
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Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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I like Cleveland. I like the Cavaliers. Nothing wrong with Cleveland. I have lots of friends there.
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I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.
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Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.
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In life, people talk at right angles. One asks a question, and the other replies in part, then uses that part to move the conversation to something else. Everyone has an agenda, has something they're trying to say - or not say.
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I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord.
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It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie.
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Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.
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War should be not a war of choice; it should be a war of necessity. And it should be a last resort.
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I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.
