Craig Lancaster Quotes
I wonder if I worry too much about whether I’m happy or sad anyway. It seems like both of those things show up and leave on their own schedule. Maybe I should just worry about whether I’m doing the appropriate thing or making the appropriate choice.
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Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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When you're on top, you're on top.
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When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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Shrek is the Mickey Mouse of DreamWorks.
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CEOs are also chief capital allocators. This is a point Warren Buffett has repeatedly made: that the role management plays in allocating capital across businesses and boosting returns on that capital is a critical yet poorly recognized one.
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I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy.
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I have gas mask in my office because I took Chem/bio warfare training class so I can report in case of an attack. It’s on a copy of my head made by Madame Tussauds
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I wonder if I worry too much about whether I’m happy or sad anyway. It seems like both of those things show up and leave on their own schedule. Maybe I should just worry about whether I’m doing the appropriate thing or making the appropriate choice.
