Barry White Quotes
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I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.
Damien Hirst -
I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
Salman Rushdie -
I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
Taylor Sheridan -
There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
Beck -
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Saint Francis de Sales -
I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
Pamela Anderson
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
Irwin Shaw -
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
Ira Glass -
Every time, I try to make something different.
Barbet Schroeder -
From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.
Kara DioGuardi -
Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.
Young Thug
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
Carl Hiaasen -
Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
Sam Levenson -
I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
Aasif Mandvi -
If a film is suitable for family viewing, it should remain so, and if a film has some adult content, it should remain so, and these genres should never be mixed and spoil the vision of the story teller.
Vijay Sethupathi -
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I'm not deciding what the artist is going to write about because it's the artist. They're gonna have to sing that song for the rest of their life. When they're old and they're 80 and they have their show in Vegas, they're gonna have to sing that song for the rest of their life.
Benny Blanco -
Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.
Jack Nance -
I never thought I'd have the opportunity to visit another culture.
Marion Cotillard -
The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
I try to tell a story musically in a song.
Barry White