Walter Becker Quotes
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I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
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When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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I get a great high from writing.
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There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.
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On 'Game of Thrones,' we always shoot away from the green screen because it's bloody expensive to shoot green screen.
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I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I'll, like, die. So throughout my life I've always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I've been trained to do that.
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Parisiennes rarely walk around wearing the giant diamonds that are de rigueur in certain New York neighborhoods.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
