Bill Wyman Quotes
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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Midi is my hobby.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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Ever since Woodward and Bernstein, there's sort of been an epidemic of confidential sources in Washington, in particular where people will actually - when you call them up on the phone, they'll say, 'This is off the record,' or, 'This is on background,' or they don't even wait for you to say anything.
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Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies.
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I think there is something very interesting about people who live day to day in an environment where they could get taken out by a wild animal. There has to be some kind respect that is derived from that relationship.
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An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.
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I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
