James Heywood Quotes
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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Clinton saw himself much more as the steward of alliances and of consensus that moved in the right direction. He didn't see himself as someone who could change the overall thrust, I think, of global policy.
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I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
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I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's too many words in it.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.
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The reason I'm an I.B.M.-type guy today is that I really needed a laptop back in 1986, and I just couldn't wait for the Powerbook.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I'm completely anti-establishment; the only thing I like about the Queen are her scarves and her jewels.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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Today, technology is moving faster than the research establishment.
