Albert Collins (Albert Gene Drewery) Quotes
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A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.
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Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?
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My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.
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Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character.
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I like my house to feel like a place where I can just lie back and say, 'Ahhhhh, I'm home.'
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My goal is for General Motors to lead in safe autonomous driving.
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The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
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I'm 69 kilos; I don't have a burden on my back.
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The blues have hope wrapped inside them.
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Whatever I do, I do for the universal. It's not like an individual thing; it's not like something from me. What I present to the people is for all of us, you know. I present music for the people.
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Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
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Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.
