William Beckett Quotes
A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.
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No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
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Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
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There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.
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I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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I don't know that a lot of boys read 'Rookie', but we get quite a few nice comments and e-mails from them. To say I'm devoted to making it girls-only is a little extreme, because I don't actively try to exclude everyone else, just make sure girls know that this space is for them first and foremost.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
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When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.
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Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness carved out of such tiny beings as we are asks to be filled; the need for the new love is faithfulness to the old.
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The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.
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Pope Francis is personally committed to this issue like no other pope before him.
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I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.
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After the success of 'Rumours,' we were in this zone with this certain scale of success. By that point, the success detaches from the music, and the success becomes about the success. The phenomenon becomes about the phenomenon.
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A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.
