Nuno Bettencourt Quotes
It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.
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I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.
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That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.
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My freestyling ability is nonexistent. I can't even write a verse if I tried to sit anywhere and write one. Being a good rapper is hard to do. I'm a good Rapaport, but that's about it.
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The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing. Take it seriously.
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You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.
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Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.
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It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.
