Bill Toomey Quotes
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
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Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.
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I suppose I am one: an activist - for animals and a vegan lifestyle. I hear that word, however, and look around to see if someone is indeed referring to me.
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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You will encounter misguided people from time to time. That's part of life. The challenge is to educate them when you can, but always to keep your dignity and self-respect and persevere in your personal growth and development.
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If the baby is sick, you won't find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.
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I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character.
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I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally.
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I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously.
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I have competed before empty stadiums a lot in my career.
