Buzz Osborne Quotes
Greg Ginn was certainly a huge influence on my guitar playing. I put him up there with people like Eddie Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen changed everything; I don't necessarily like everything he did, but he definitely changed everything.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.
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It's a normal thing for people to do, going on Facebook and seeing pictures of their exes with their new significant others.
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People said I'd never make 35, then I'd never make 40, 45; now I'm almost 50, so Im beginning to think maybe they might be wrong.
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I learn a lot as a director from acting in other people's films and just in general.
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Don't think I am not homesick for America. I say 'homesick' advisedly because I am a man with two homes - America, which gave me hospitality for many happy years, and where my daughter was born; and my native England.
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Greg Ginn was certainly a huge influence on my guitar playing. I put him up there with people like Eddie Van Halen. Eddie Van Halen changed everything; I don't necessarily like everything he did, but he definitely changed everything.
