Burt Bacharach Quotes
I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.
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I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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I had just 15 days to work on my body for the climactic fight of 'Bodyguard.' And I would work on every muscle of my body two/three times a week. I would have developed a superb body if I had three months, but squeezing it into 15 days can be harmful. Also, as you grow older, your metabolic rate slows down.
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I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.
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While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.
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I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.
