Dawn Angeliqué Richard (Dawn Richard) Quotes
Songwriting was my own journey. I never fit in with structure in songwriting.
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I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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If acting doesn't work out, I'm probably going to be a professional chef.
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I spend most of my time at concerts hoping for that one second that the artist looks at me, I look at the artist, and that's when I get to say, 'Thank you.'
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I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission a musical and to live on for a year. You'd be likely to get at least one project with a future.
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The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
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I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.
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To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.
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Some like them fat, some like them tall, some like them short, skinny legs and all. I like them all.
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The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.
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It's not our job to be liked teachers. Its our job to help them be smart students. Secretly, I thought, who gives a rat's ass if they like us? Sometimes I can hardly stand them!
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Songwriting was my own journey. I never fit in with structure in songwriting.
