Stevie Jackson Quotes
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.
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I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
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What I think you are going to see is with DACA being gone, it gets rid of the magnet of drawing people over here, thinking they are going to come in and get amnesty.
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I didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.
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Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
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Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.
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There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they do things, and then I go through a period of 'trying on' those same thinking patterns and behaviors. After awhile, what is not essentially me falls away while the useful parts remain.
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Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.
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As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.
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If I want to go out and eat at a restaurant with amazing food, I'll do that, like, once a week where I'm not thinking about it. I want to indulge! I want to do things that are not necessarily healthy sometimes.
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When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.
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There was a weird moment where-I was still a drummer, I always saw myself as a drummer-and we got nominated for a Grammy, that was really crazy, and I was sitting there and Stevie Wonder was on stage and I remember thinking 'Wow, I really need to take singing more seriously!'
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'I have no fear of war,' said Arthur Stuart. 'That’s when kings get to show their mettle.''You’re thinking of chess,' said Margaret. 'In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.'
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I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
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Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.
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Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.
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We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are: you're an adult, you're supposed to manage, you're supposed to get over it, you're supposed to go on with your life, and you feel like a lost child.
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I mean, the first “Back to the Future” is kind of a perfect script, I think. In terms of handling time travel the best, it depends on your definition. To me, that means it effectively uses it in the story.
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There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
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I think every record, good or bad, is a representation of us.
