William Orbit Quotes
I really just concentrated on putting out solo stuff on my website, just trying things, but this time we thought it was time to do a proper record, where you make a bit of a fanfare about it. Something that says "listen everybody, I'm here".
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
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When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
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In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.
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Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.
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For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.
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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
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My little sister Aliana's opinions are the most important to me. She says, 'I want to look like you, you're so pretty!' But she is very beautiful and so she is trouble in the making! She wants to do what I do. I'm like her second mother and I am very protective of her.
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I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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Sometimes I have ice cream for lunch. Gelateria Sempione in Milan is the best in the world, hands down. The chocolate sorbetto is amazing.
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I really just concentrated on putting out solo stuff on my website, just trying things, but this time we thought it was time to do a proper record, where you make a bit of a fanfare about it. Something that says "listen everybody, I'm here".
