Bill Vaughan Quotes
Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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I'm more a fan of my fans than I think they are of me!
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I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made... It has become kind of my signature thing.
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.
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It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
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If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.
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The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.
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I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.
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I love feeling like I'm 'on the pulse' of things. Nothing more satisfying, more valued, more exciting as a writer. Because shaping pop culture really means that you're saying something that a lot of people want to hear.
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Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.
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What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
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Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.
