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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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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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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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
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A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
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The eternal task of song can never be finished in a single lifetime. That is the beauty and fascination of the art. Once you begin to phrase finely, you will feel more joy in the beautiful finish of a beautiful phrase than that caused by the loudest applause of an immense audience. The latter excites for a moment; the former endures forever.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.
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I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.
