Feist Quotes
I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There's merit online, of course, but social media gets super freaky. Imagine if three generations from now, people online have forgotten what date or day of the week it is.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I don't do meetings.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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I grew up loving watching movies, and at a certain point, I started to become fascinated with making movies. Then I went to film school, and I got to dabble with different aspects of moviemaking, and I ended up settling heavily into editing - editing was what I was really adept at, had a passion for.
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I didn't have any natural instincts toward heading. It cost me lots of opportunities to score.
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I love the DJ scene out in the clubs. It is a great way to party and make people happy, the atmosphere is one that I use as an escape from reality.
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I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But with Jack Paar, the job was very specific - no confusion. You came in each day. You wrote five pages of jokes. You handed the pages in... The pressure was to write five pages of jokes every day. I did it, and I thought, 'This is what I like to do.'
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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.
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I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There's merit online, of course, but social media gets super freaky. Imagine if three generations from now, people online have forgotten what date or day of the week it is.
