Bud Flanagan Quotes
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
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I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.
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After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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Does the global Left - as well as the Israeli Left - truly not care about the horrific Taliban regime, the terrible oppression of women in Gulf states, and the mass hanging festivals in Iran?
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You can only do so much theatre.
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When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds.
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When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.
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90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.
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Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas.
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People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.
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A name, of course is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away.
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There's really powerful and potentially dominating forces when you make a film that can harm it if you're incapable of orchestrating things.
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When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
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We dream our dreams away.
