Doc Watson Quotes

The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much.

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• Talent is very hot.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
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• My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.

  

  Rafael Nadal
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• The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Good
  • Emotional
  • Enough

• It's hard to juggle being a businessperson with being a creative person. You have to organize yourself - PR needs me for PR, and the licensing division needs me for licensing, the bridal people need me for bridal.

  

  Vera Wang
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  • Yourself
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• I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Book
  • Career
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• For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Feel
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• I'm the baddest among the bad guys.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Bad
  • Guys
  • Among

• I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Work
  • Hate
  • Couple

• We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • People
  • Think
  • Better

• Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Sleep
  • Singing

• What Guitar Hero has done is to turn music inside out. Whereas the iPod made music very personal, very singular - you put your ear-buds in and you listen to it - Guitar Hero turned it around and made it very social. So it is fun to play. It's fun to play against people.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • People
  • Music
  • Done

• I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Culture
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Family
  • Money
  • Mother

• Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can there be anything better than performing without retakes and cuts, in front of people you can see, hearing them breathe in the darkness of the hall?

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Love
  • Theatre

• The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Religion
  • Bible
  • Worth

• I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • World
  • Today
  • Attitude

• A man´s taste is formed more by his culture, his profession, and the period in which he is young than by his race or politics.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Culture
  • Period

• Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

  

  Alvin Adams
  • Success

• When I was growing up as a child, a magazine, to me, was like a finger beckoning me to the future.

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Up
  • Future
  • Growing

• I am always interested in helping and growing new tech start-ups and ideas.

  

  John McAfee
  • Growing

• You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year.

  

  Anna Friel
  • Live
  • Eyes
  • Bored

• The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much.

  

  Doc Watson