Butch Walker Quotes
When you write a song that is so personal to yourself, it's really hard to picture anybody else understanding it when you're singing it. There's things that are very broad and universal topics. Those are the songs that might work for others.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
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I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
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You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.
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It's not my job to judge or assess. I think single, black, white, married - people are doing the best they can.
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Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.
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The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
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A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you're doing something wrong.
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I like black because it is a vacant space.
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I hate those vacuous musicals, the happy-happy, 'Let's have a good time' shows.
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I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'
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When you sit down and there's nothing, and then you write a song and there's something, that's the most extraordinary feeling.
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I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.
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Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.
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When you write a song that is so personal to yourself, it's really hard to picture anybody else understanding it when you're singing it. There's things that are very broad and universal topics. Those are the songs that might work for others.
