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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I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Aujourd'hui maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.
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At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17- and 18-year-olds, but for some reason I got the part. It made me incredibly unpopular with my peers, but it was the English and drama teachers who stepped in to save me when others wanted me kicked out of the school.
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Anyone who knows me knows my mom, Dorcina, has to sign off on any decision and that she will play a major part in any decision.
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You have to come to full realization of just how horrible things are. And this is how horrible things are: Donald Trump is almost the President of the United States.
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The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.
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The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much.
