Dean Wareham Quotes
The road, lyric-wise, is a trap, and a bore. Maybe it's interesting to me, but I don't think it's a connecting thing with other humans. What is there to write about? Truck stops, hotels, clubs?
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Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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But I think we need the international market.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.
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What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.
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I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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I love a man who can wear my underwear.
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The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.
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I just want to write fun, interesting music that pushes boundaries and is still true to myself. I want people to feel something.
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As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid.
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Well, human security is a concept that I am very committed to enshrining in American foreign policy.
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In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.
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The road, lyric-wise, is a trap, and a bore. Maybe it's interesting to me, but I don't think it's a connecting thing with other humans. What is there to write about? Truck stops, hotels, clubs?
