Bethany Cosentino (Best Coast) Quotes
Touring is definitely work. You're spending a lot of time in the car and around the same people and it's not the easiest thing in the world, but it's better than working a 9-to-5 job or something.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.
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I've learned 90 percent of what I know from watching and listening to actors. A good leading actor is the rock of the show. Their energy and their tone really sets the groundwork for how everything is going to work. I've been lucky to deal with stars who are very giving and generous.
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You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.
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I train to be the champion.
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult.
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All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.
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When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.
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Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.
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I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.
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I'm not surprised about the lack of women on boardrooms. They were only emancipated 200 years ago, and historically, men have dominated. I welcome women as long as they qualify for the job.
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The whole issue of how women's management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.
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The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.
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Once you learn how to roller skate for 'Starlight Express,' it's a lifelong skill you have acquired.
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Touring is definitely work. You're spending a lot of time in the car and around the same people and it's not the easiest thing in the world, but it's better than working a 9-to-5 job or something.
