Bill Vaughan Quotes
Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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When I was told they wanted the show to be about doctors, I was a bit reluctant to sign on, you know? I thought, why have a show about doctors when we could have a show about the real heroes, you know, like me?
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Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.
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Well, we promised our fans that we'd put out records faster, and that's what we're doing. We figured out a way to condense our cycle, so to speak, by... continuing to write, trying to keep the creative ball rolling as often as possible.
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Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.
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Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.
