Walter Besant Quotes
I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.
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I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance in life.
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Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
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As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.
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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.
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I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.
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I saw Tom Cruise at every audition I went up for, and he was a friendly go-getter back then. You gotta remember, in New York I would go up for something, I would sit, and in the room would be Matthew Modine, Matthew Broderick, Andrew McCarthy, Tom Cruise, and Kevin Bacon.
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At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart.
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I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.
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Funky like your grandpa's drawers, don't test me We in like that, you're dead like Presley
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The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.
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They're lots of good Americans here in New York who have common sense and who believe in free markets and free people and limited government under our Constitution. Those are the principles I've always stood for. I know they're right, and that's what I'm going to stand for.
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Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.
