Stewart Copeland Quotes
In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.
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I am not a 'doom and gloom' guy.
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We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.
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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
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Some people become artists for whatever reasons. Some of it's frivolous. And I don't think there should be any shame on that, but I think there comes a point in life where you want to offer more.
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I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.
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People, and not only Americans, are losing their sons, husbands, brothers, and fathers for no other reason than the profits of US armaments corporations, and the gullible American people seem proud of it. Those ribbon decals on their cars, SUVs and monster trucks proclaim their naive loyalty to the armaments industries and to the whores in Washington who promote wars.
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In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.
