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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Imperfection is perfection.
-
Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
-
I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
-
I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
-
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.
-
The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
-
First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
-
Change is no threat to culture.
-
I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.
-
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
-
A great painting is a great painting.
-
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.
-
I am supposed to set an example to young players.
-
Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
-
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.
-
As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
-
You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
-
When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'
-
People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
-
I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place with that album. I pioneered a number of ideas with that album and subsequent tour. The all-keyboard approach with no guitars was a new one, and I was one of the first to use a drum machine in concert. It was an amazing time.
-
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.
