Ernest Dion Wilson (No I.D.) Quotes
I just want to work on music and make some new stars. I'm not interested in being a star.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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There are very few great poets in the world.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.
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People actually really want to see what I'm up to, and that's crazy.
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Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.
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As you probably know, half of the people who work in this country work for small businesses. And it's more than that, because two out of every three net new jobs come from small business. So we mean it when we talk about small business being the engine for the economy.
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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
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I realized that I really enjoy writing comedy, and how important comedy is when you feel like total crap.
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Women were naturally pure souls, on so much higher a spiritual plane to begin with than men.
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Anytime you can promote young artists and designers is a cool thing.
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I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or watch bad TV soaps. It's quite rare for me to get inspired by anything, but it could be something small. A view of the Serpentine. A snatch of music. Or a little shred of conversation overheard on a bus, such as, 'You also will marry someone of my choice.'
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I just want to work on music and make some new stars. I'm not interested in being a star.
