James Avery Quotes
Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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I got plenty of grief for 'Blackwater,' because in the books, there's this huge chain across the harbor that features prominently in the battle. And we simply weren't able to do it with our budget and do it any justice, so we had to lose it.
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A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.
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Talent is only interesting if it's challenged.
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Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.
