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 become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.
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I'm not in the business of politics.
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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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Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends.
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The law is more easily understood by few than many words. For all words are subject to ambiguity, and therefore multiplication of words in the body of the law is multiplication of ambiguity. Besides, it seems to imply (by too much diligence) that whosoever can evade the words is without the compass of the law.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.
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I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.
