Doc Watson Quotes
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Talent is very hot.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.
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I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
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We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.
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I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.
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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?
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The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
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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.
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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.
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Good breeding doesn't mean that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice when someone else does.
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From time immemorial man has been made in such a way that his vision of the world, so long as it has not been instilled under hypnosis, his motivations and scale of values, his actions and intentions are determined by his personal and group experience of life.
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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
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If I am in a beautiful place, but I don't like the people, I am miserable.
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I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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I think my best songs come from me sitting at a piano, bashing my head against a brick wall for hours and hours on end to get one good melody.
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Most of the time, when you need something at a company, you make it. If you want to sell a product, you create it. If you need a head of marketing, you hire one. If you want to create a great company culture, what do you do? The lack of a clear answer on this is why I believe most companies don't have a great culture.
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My heart is like an open highway...people come and go and sometimes they are just beside you and you dont know
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The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much.
