Percy Heath Quotes
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.
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'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia.
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People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
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No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
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Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.
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I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids – he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.
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If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.
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Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing.
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I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.
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Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.
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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
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I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.
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When I was 13, I looked like I could play 16, and I wasn't mature enough to play 16.
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I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.
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My aunts still try to fatten me up.
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From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.
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I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
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Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that’s the direction I am in now which I call spiritual.
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My desire to dive with an oxygen cylinder was so intensive that I decided to use a trick. Registering as Helene Jacob, I lied about my age: instead of 1902, I wrote 1922 in the application forms. My rejuvenation not withstanding, the scuba instructor eyed me skeptically; he was probably thinking: She'll never make it.
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An entire composition written in jazz could not live.
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Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.
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I had to go to Europe to tour and he died on the second day of the tour.
