Bill Porter Quotes
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'
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Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.
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For the rain it raineth every day.
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The neurosis of normality is a case of repetition compulsion caused by the repression of awareness.
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The man recovered of the bite,The dog it was that died.
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Diego is Diego and for me he is the greatest player of all time. Even after a million years I am not even going to be close to Maradona. I have no intention of comparing myself with Maradona - I want to make my own history for something I have achieved.
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It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.
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Everything I do will always be compared to 'Love Song' in terms of success or the way it's written or whatever, but it was a really formative moment in my life and in my career.
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I love seeing people's reactions to gifts that I've created from my line, such as my gold horn ring, bottle openers, my 'Fallen' leather jacket and my Slither black and white sweater.
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I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way we think of tragic figures.
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Writing songs is kind of like a wrestling match to me. You have to pin it down and make it do what you want it to do.
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I love traditional shoes. I have a nice couple of pairs of traditional Oxford-style shoes, a pair of Edward Green shoes, and I aspire to a pair of hand-made George Cleverley shoes. Mark McNairy, all those are amazing.
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I remember being really shocked after Mellow Gold came out and going on tour, and all these kids were there. It totally disturbed me. Who are all these young people? I'd been playing Mississippi John Hurt covers in coffee shops to a bunch of thirty-, forty-, fifty-year olds. Then all of a sudden there were these teenagers.
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On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa.
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I LOVED her! ay, I would have givenA death-bed certainty of heavenIf I had thought it could conferThe least of happiness on her!
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There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.
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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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The world has no hold on you. Whatever has a hold on you comes from your mind.
