Bill Vaughan Quotes
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.
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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
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I hope to work till I'm an old lady.
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If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.
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Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
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I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.
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I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.
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The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
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The Union will awaken. It always has. We always will.
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I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people.
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I marched with you in the streets of Chicago to meet our immigration challenge. I fought with you in the Senate for comprehensive immigration reform. And I will make it a top priority in my first year as President.
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The scriptures are one of our greatest treasures. They contain God’s instructions to His people from the beginning of time.
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Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.
