Paul Weller Quotes
I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.
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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'
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You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.
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Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.
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Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.
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Music is always a creative process that comes from the heart. It's a feeling, a vibration, that we ride on.
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I find writing a book a slow, intricate process, a kind of obstacle course punctuated with great rewards. But research is always thrilling, and I tend to incorporate newfound material up to the very last minute.
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The worst headline is one that contains a factual error. Bad headlines are ones that are bland, and don't tell the reader anything specific, like 'Democrats at it Again.'
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I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.
