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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It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.
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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 am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way.
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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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I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies that celebrated the region of where I lived.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.
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War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.
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I had to go to Europe to tour and he died on the second day of the tour.
