Eddie Floyd Quotes
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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They all do the same thing, ... All of them, they just know how to set up hitters. They strike you out when they need a strikeout. It's just amazing to watch them pitch.
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Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.
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I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
