Bill Vaughan Quotes
My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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I think I need security.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Boys can just wear a suit on the red carpet and that's fine, but for girls it's all about the way you look, and there are constant comparisons.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I've fought court battles over my inventions before.
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I'm a natural sceptic.
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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.
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I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.
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My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
