Walter Becker Quotes
We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.
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Twelve to 15 years of acting school, and I am being a bird.
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I didn't know until high school that I was interested in writing in any real way. But there was this boy that I had a crush on, and I used to tell him all the time what I felt about him. Finally he gave me a blank journal and said to write it all down - and it didn't take me very long to realize how much I loved writing.
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I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into baseball.
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I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the end of the year I had to pick a charity to donate my taxes to.
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We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.
