Finlay Dow-Smith (Starsmith) Quotes
When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
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I had my first real kiss at Magic Mountain on a park bench. Not the most romantic thing ever.
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A lot of times, people assume that I write all the songs: that I arrange them and I stick Kevin up there as kind of a puppet or something. It's absolutely not that way. In fact, he writes probably 60 percent of the songs, and I write probably 40 percent.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.
