Bill Raftery Quotes
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I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
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I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.
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Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
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I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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For a long time, I lived in West Hollywood and watched young gay men strolling through life having no idea what came before. They didn't know about the riots at Stonewall, the vice squad, the raids.
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I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.
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The U.N. did not create Israel. The Jewish state came into being because the tiny Jewish community in what was mandatory Palestine rebelled against foreign imperialist rule. We did not conquer a foreign land.
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I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.
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New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to claim to study imagination objectively since one really receives the image only if he admires it. Already in comparing one image to another, one runs the risk of losing participation in its individuality.
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I've always thought young.
