Walter Becker Quotes
There was a time in my life when one aspect of my lifestyle called for watching a lot of television.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
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One of the trickiest things about 'Game of Thrones' is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that people need to know, both about the world and the ground rules of the world, and the relationships between the characters, as far as who means what to whom and why.
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Can you imagine your second album - the difficult second album - it's about God? Everyone is tearing their hair out and Chris Blackwell says, 'It's okay. There's Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, it's a tradition. We can get through it.
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You meet people and go, 'We're going to be friends forever!' then you get home and can't even remember their name.
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Every company, large and small, has an impact on health.
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There was a time in my life when one aspect of my lifestyle called for watching a lot of television.
