William Beckett Quotes
I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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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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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
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If you want to buy $10 of Ethereum and poke around with smart contracts, I encourage that. But use it as a technology, not as an investment, unless you know what you're doing.
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For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.
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I think every woman in their life wants to give a good face smack.
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I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.
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I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
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I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.
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I know people who have gone into career death spins, and that's something you're always aware of as a writer.
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Culture is the collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from others.
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To have a live choir there on the stage and then these singers from different countries signing with us in real time through Skype, it's as if there aren't borders anymore.
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Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.
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The health of life on Earth depends on its oceans. But unless we save our seas from the growing mounds of pop bottles, cigarette butts and plastic trash, soon there won't be much healthy sea left.
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.
