Willie Stargell (Pops) Quotes
I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life.
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I'm very self-critical.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.
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I work, and then I leave the office, and I'm with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I don't feel like I'm exorcising my own deep ideas about parenthood and about how my life will come into play in my work.
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I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life.
