Deborah Moggach Quotes
Psych yourself up until you're confident that the world will be interested in what happens to your characters. Confidence is key.
Quotes to Explore
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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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 never got into politics for it to be a career.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
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McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.
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But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
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I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
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There is no truly global justice.
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I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.
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I've been an REM fan since I was a little girl. I would jump around to 'Stand' in the mirror.
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I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid.
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I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.
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When I was a campaign worker, you would meet people who would want to vote but didn't have any money for postage. It happens more often than people think.
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Psych yourself up until you're confident that the world will be interested in what happens to your characters. Confidence is key.
