William A. Drake Quotes
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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I want the single player experience.
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I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I've had many ideas come from clients.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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It's always inspiring when people all come together and be strong as a group. This is why I feel so strongly to put the message to people that we need to stand together in tough times.
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What strikes me about Jesus is that he is a remarkably true person; he never changes his personality to fit in with whatever crowd he finds himself. He is simply himself, and he never plays to his audience.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.
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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
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I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.
