Gary Locke Quotes
On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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Continued focus on (employee) turnover is of critical importance, because of the direct relation of turnover to improvements in labor costs and guest satisfaction.
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Chinese growth will either be strong or very strong. They have a voracious demand for energy that will only continue to grow. What they're doing... is looking at all forms of energy. They're going ahead very strongly with coal, nuclear, oil, natural gas.
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I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.
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On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.
