Bill Bruford Quotes
I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even when you don't get what you expect.
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I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.'
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I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
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You may not quite understand the cinematic tricks that go behind the making of a film, but as long as you feel it, I think that's the important thing.
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I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon.
