Walter Becker Quotes
From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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Imperfection is perfection.
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I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
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In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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Change is no threat to culture.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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A great painting is a great painting.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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I go to this gym in Hollywood: it's a Cross Fit gym. It's basically just a really high intensity, sort of, athletic movements. I'm sure Cross Fit is going to be mad at me for not giving their definition of what Cross Fit is.
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Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of characters you can include. Even 'furniture' characters can be described and given speaking parts to develop background or atmosphere.
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I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.
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I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.
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I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
