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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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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We don't want a third party who may or may not have our best interests in mind or our crew members' best interests in mind because they may be serving a union of one of our competitors. They are trying to equalize us and take away our competitive advantage.
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I had to live on $17,000 a year until I was 33, because I was a failed artist until I was 29, when I made my first short film that went to Sundance.
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If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.
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And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.
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Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.
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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.
