John Whiting Quotes
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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Men can be men and still get excited about other men kicking a ball around and they're never mocked, whereas it's easy for women to take mocking on board, to be belittled. Because we're used to it.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.
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You meet nice people in line. I come out early every year.
