Bill Atkinson Quotes
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.
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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
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Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.
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It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?
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There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
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If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.
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My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.
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In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.
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I was listening to a lot of really early house music tracks. Like Chicago house and Detroit. And Marshall Jefferson has a track probably from 1980 - somewhere around there - that doesn't actually have any electronic instruments, no drum machines, nothing. Just a drummer and a piano player and they're playing this house music, but they're actually playing it. I really love that aesthetic and wanted to bring that into the album.
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Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence.
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Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.
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Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die.
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It was a given at UCSB that if there was a role that called for a person of color, it was going to be handed to me. There were certain times when maybe I didn't try as hard. Going to Yale was a way more diverse experience.
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I'm not interested in pleasing color; I'm interested in exact color.
