Bill Vaughan Quotes
Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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I'm the best Twitterer.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line.
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God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.
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We want to have the place jumping, ... Traditional British people have to start re-examining themselves and their culture in terms of addressing the new age.
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Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.
