Walter Becker Quotes
Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.
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By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
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I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.
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I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
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I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.
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I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in college stay up late at night, at 2 A.M., just to get the lighting right, and I thought, 'You know what, if that's what it's going to be like, I think I'm just going to write,' and I did that.
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I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
