Walter Becker Quotes
'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
-
I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.
-
We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
-
But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
-
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
-
I smoke, isn't that terrible?
-
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
-
I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
-
If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
-
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
-
I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
-
I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.
-
Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
-
I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
-
I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
-
The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
-
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
-
As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
-
I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
-
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
-
While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
-
Lecture II : The Universal Categories, § 2 : Struggle, CP 5.51
-
I'm married to the street; I ain't gonna switch over. I ain't gonna go religion on nobody. I believe in God - God is for the thugs too - but the streets are in the most trouble. So I'mma keep it focused on the streets and the struggle. That's what I'm mainly about.
-
'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it.
