Randy West Quotes
At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.
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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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Every person that's in the NBA should experience playing in New York at least once in their career.
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In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
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This bikini made me a success.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
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How I see my career is very much as an entrepreneur in the field of philanthropy.
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The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.
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I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion. I've always had to depend on a stylist helping me to figure it out.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And I hate flying. So I have this really laid-back, good lifestyle, and it's hard to nudge me out of it.
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My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.
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With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they cause have been exacerbated.
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Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I'd be the chief minister.
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At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.
