Bill Harley Quotes
In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living thing as you could get without being one.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.
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Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.
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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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I'm not superstitious.
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Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.
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I was sure I wanted to grow up to be either a veterinarian or a writer. In fact, I worked for a vet during high school, doing everything from cleaning cages to assisting in surgery.
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People think floating should be the easiest and happiest time for a company, but it's actually really hard. We were meant to think we'd won - we'd gone public and could go on to new things. But we were only just getting started.
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Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face. Sometimes, I think he turns 10 to 15 years younger when I deliver a hit.
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The barrier to entry, to being a model, is not hard work. You don't need a degree. You don't need to win an award. It's just about how you look.
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I'm a head-shot photographer. I have people come to my apartment, and I take their head shots.
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One of the difficulties you run into is that acting and celebrity are so closely intertwined. People make careers out of being charismatic personalities. It's one of those things that people have come to expect from actors. Personalities that don't change from role to role. I don't want it that way.
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We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.
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In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.
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There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men - positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion picture projectionist.
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I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.
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Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald gave me the use of his study in Pusey Library. Monroe and Brenda Engel kept open house, Bob and Jana Kiely made me at home in Adams House. Then, too, in 1979, Frank Bidart, whom Id met in Dublin after the death of Robert Lowell he was over seeing Caroline Blackwood Frank brought me into his circle of friends, including Robert Pinsky and Alan Williamson.
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There's been a great development with scale on TV, but my approach is always the same across projects, whether it's a video game, a movie, or a TV show: I always try to set up my sounds and my themes. I really try to stay with the characters and do the storytelling through the music.
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In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living thing as you could get without being one.
