Walter Becker Quotes
Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
Viggo Mortensen
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
W. H. Auden
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
Edie Falco
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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
Barbara Boxer
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I am often in contact with the hareidi public and politicians.
Naftali Bennett
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I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.
Nate Ruess
Fun.
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My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
Saina Nehwal
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
Patrick Rothfuss
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I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.
Harriet Walter
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Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.
Paddy Considine
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
Zygmunt Bauman
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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
Edmund Phelps
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Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
Barry Gibb
Bee Gees
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One thing however, Nat did for him. He taught him carpentry. He learned to distinguish between the different kinds of wood, to love them and understand their ways. Realizing that the boy had great skill with his hands Nat gave him a few tools for his own and taught him wood carving.... First the books and then the wood. Each was a milestone for him on the way through.
Elizabeth Goudge
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
Sam Donaldson
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It's nice to be number one on the call sheet.
J. K. Simmons
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I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.
Sachin Tendulkar
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Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
