Daniel Powter Quotes
I write everything. I have that control issue with my music. That's why I'm not in a band.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing Iran, they didn't care about it. When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.
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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
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Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?
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In 2010, the Spanish constitutional court annulled a large part of the Catalan statute of autonomy negotiated between Catalonia and the previous prime minister, Jose Luis Zapatero. This demolished one of the main agreements achieved during the Spanish transition to democracy - Catalonia's recovery of self-governance.
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You don't want to overeat too much because then you have to work twice as hard.
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When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.
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I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
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Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.
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Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get tough. In a world where white working class folks are going to church less and less, they're losing that when they might really need it.
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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than there is with an immobile force of 1,300.
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My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.
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Anywhere in the world is a great gig if the people are pumped to hear some music.
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I just am really bad at making new friends - especially in the music industry, because they're not really real friends; they're just music industry friends.
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I always considered myself a songwriter, but I didn't move to New York with plans of doing that; it just sort of happened. Everyone thinks that I moved to New York strictly to play music, but I totally just happened to fall into playing with Woods, and it all got started from there. I just went to New York to hang out.
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I write everything. I have that control issue with my music. That's why I'm not in a band.
