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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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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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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I've had such an inspiring and formative journey in my career.
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Los Angeles is the strongest defender of immigrants perhaps of any city in this country.
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
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When people say to me, 'You're so prolific!' it's, like, no, I'm just hopeless with money.
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In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.
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At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles.
