Eddy Merckx Quotes
Sometimes it's strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I'm surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello.
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I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
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Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.
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I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.
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When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.
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Find the best in everybody. … you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.
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Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.
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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
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I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.
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I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
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I've got so much in my brain and I want to change the way we think sometimes.
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When you're on tour, you really don't get to hang out with and spend the holidays with your family and friends. And there isn't usually much of a break in between performance dates.
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I feel like a lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the interview. Then as soon as they actually sit down with that person, they basically ask the questions they think journalists are supposed to ask, and they start viewing themselves almost as a peer of the subject. Like they're going to become friends. That's why most celebrity journalism is so terrible.
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Sometimes it's strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I'm surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.
