Bill Orcutt Quotes
I had a guitar sitting around, and it just happened to have four strings on it, and I would sit around watching TV and playing it. I ended up writing bunches of songs around four strings.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a woman, so I'm definitely going to write from that point of view.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.
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I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
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Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.
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All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
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I had a guitar sitting around, and it just happened to have four strings on it, and I would sit around watching TV and playing it. I ended up writing bunches of songs around four strings.
