Bill Dixon Quotes
I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag.
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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My little boy, West, and my wife, they're my rock and that's the thing that keeps driving me to do better at what I do professionally. There was a time in my career where I had been on this huge roller coaster ride and I'd really got in the spot where I could've hung up it and just been a songwriter.
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I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.
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I cannot sing Vampirella artist Patrick Berkenkotter's praises loudly or often enough.
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
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While everyone has First Amendment rights to free speech, the law strictly prohibits attorneys from releasing confidential and privileged information.
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Film will always be my main focus, but designing and publishing my own work is something I will also always do.
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I find fight scenes actually more interesting, in a way, than chase scenes because you're watching your character go through this problem-solving process and fight the antagonist mano-a-mano. It's more powerful, more emotional.
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There was a time when fire and story would fall asleep in unison. It was dream time.
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I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag.
