Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
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Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. We are several decades away from a definitive understanding, 20 or 30 years, but it could be sooner than that.
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When my dad played me 'Walking Man,' I heard those chord changes and that melody, it completely blew me away. Maybe you wouldn't really hear the James Taylor influences in my music, but they're definitely buried in there.
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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After the success of 'Rumours,' we were in this zone with this certain scale of success. By that point, the success detaches from the music, and the success becomes about the success. The phenomenon becomes about the phenomenon.
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I'm a huge fan of the '70s. I'm obsessed with the music of that time.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
