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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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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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.
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The hideous god of war.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.
