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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 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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Sail through the sea of sad faces with love. Love. Love for everyone. Drift like a little boat on a wave.
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I love the gym, but I still want to look a bit awkward at it. I don't want to look too on top of it, you know?
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I look around at all the girl singers, and I think they're all my children... and they're all going to do this... And, yes, maybe I inspired them because I did get through a lot, and I did have the same problems that they're going to have. You do have to give up a lot for it.
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My first encounter with computers was in 1968 as a Freshman engineering student at the University of Michigan, taking a required Fortran IV class.
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I lived in an apartment near Wrigley Field.
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Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
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How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?
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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.
