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 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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Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from 'hurry sickness.' Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.
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If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.
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'Why Did I Get Married?' did so well because it gave some real perspective on the realities of love.
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I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.
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I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.
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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.
