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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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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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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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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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
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No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is why there is no death. There is continuation. There is no silence. There is a continuation of thought.
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My every birthday wish was, 'I want to someday be on TV.'
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I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.
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At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.
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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.
