Albert Lee Quotes
I never really paid much attention to music that was going on in the UK. I was always looking towards the States for my inspiration.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time.
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Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.
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In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.
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A lot of my close friends are nothing to do with show business. But the people I've had relationships with, invariably, I've worked with. I think that's probably because I grew up in a family where we all worked together, so it's something I feel comfortable with.
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I guess John Wayne would be one. I just respected the way he acted.
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Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.
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I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
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I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
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And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
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One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.
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I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.
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When you look at 'policy wonk' in the dictionary, the one picture you won't see is Donald Trump.
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One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.
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I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail.
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We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves.
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I never really paid much attention to music that was going on in the UK. I was always looking towards the States for my inspiration.
