Jim Dale Quotes
The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
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There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
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As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!
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Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
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Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.
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My father has asked me to be the fourth corner at the Joy Luck Club. I am to replace my mother, whose seat at the mah jong table has been empty since she died two months ago. My father thinks she was killed by her own thoughts.
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The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.
