Bill Bruford Quotes
Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time.
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My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.
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Cheap money feels like the most natural thing in the world - if you don't think about why it's so cheap.
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The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate.
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Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .
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Toothaches afflict those who have no compassion for animals.
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Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past.
