Keith Emerson Quotes
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
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When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.
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The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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Vampires are handy characters, as they can do double duty as monster/villains and the classic, misunderstood romantic hero.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.
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Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
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Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.
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I was born and raised in New York. My family has been in New York City since the Civil War. I have a ton of N.Y.C. in my DNA, from both sides of my family. I had a wonderful childhood in the city.
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While Wall Street firms typically underwrite offerings in teams, the lead underwriter, or manager, of the offering has primary responsibility for selling the offering and reaps much of the fees and profit.
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There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.
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What I learned for myself... is that no matter what the circumstances, people survive.
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That's baseball, and it's my game. Y' know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave 'em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It's good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of 'em.
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If they want a photograph, then just take it.
