Walter Becker Quotes
I thought Twitter was a joke. I really thought it was a gag. I thought it was like National Lampoon or the Onion.
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I've actually changed my view of Los Angeles. When I was younger, I hated it, because I thought it was fake and superficial. As I've gotten older, I've found that to be absolutely true, but I don't care.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not in a million years. I never thought I would play as long as I did, either, seventeen years from start to finish, with stops in Houston, Minnesota, Seattle, and Kansas City.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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I really like performing for people.
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When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
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Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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My first thought is always of light.
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I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.
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People communicate in Twittering ways. I've learned how to do that.
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I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt or berries.
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.
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I thought Twitter was a joke. I really thought it was a gag. I thought it was like National Lampoon or the Onion.
