Roy Wood Quotes
I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us.
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When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.
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To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.
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Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating is a more public aspect of parenting. Other people can see it and compare it to what their kids eat.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.
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I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.
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I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.
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When my car broke down in L.A., nobody stopped. They just kept whizzing by.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
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We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.
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'No I'm not no loser, I'll see you in Hell.'
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When someone's really good at encapsulating human emotion and putting it out in a form that can reach a variety of people, that's going to have a big effect when he's no longer there.
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It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by global competition.
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I love doing my own stunts. I'd love to do a full-on period sword-fighting piece where I get to show off with fighting and horses - I'm up for it.
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The first album I bought was the Spice Girls, ha ha.
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A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in his lifetime then a black man of my father's generation. I was born after the Voting Rights Act, after the Civil Rights Act, after the Fair Housing Act.
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There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I can't do by myself you know.
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When you're in a band and write a song on your own, it isn't fully realized until it goes into somebody else's ears.
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I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
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I think it was probably down to the fact that we weren't together personally as a band. We weren't pulling in the same direction. I always feel if you're having a good time in the studio it actually comes across on the tape and that was a bit of a miserable album for us.
