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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I like to do really realistic paintings, which requires so much focus; like, if I have to go to the bathroom or change a song, I can't; I'm so in it.
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.
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I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
