Victor Cruz Quotes
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.
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In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
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Fashion is one big family.
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The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.
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Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.
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I love to sweat.
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How to stop rushing from place to place, always looking ahead to the next thing while the moment in front of me slipped away unnoticed.
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My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
