Billy Duffy Quotes
We need to reconnect with our people, our tribe. We need to be among them. We want this to be as intimate as possible. You can't do that in an airline hanger, mate.
Quotes to Explore
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The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.
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I like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it's not too violent.
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I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.
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'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'
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I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.
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However, people need to understand that it ain't that deep to try and convince people of what your persona is. You are who you are, and what you are will show in time. What you aren't can be hidden, but eventually it will come to light. Long story short: rappers should never take themselves too seriously.
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A lot of people have come with 100 songs and never had the impact that I have with one, and I'm well aware of that.
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I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.
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This high-end, novelistic form of TV, you know, is just peppered with despicable people who do marvelous things and marvelous people who do despicable things.
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It's very exciting to be able to just work in this business, let alone on stuff you are extremely proud of. So it does make me a little nervous, because 'Breaking Bad' is so special. It's great being part of something so great because people pay attention to you, hopefully because you're doing good work.
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Regardless of theology or however you see life or relate to worshiping God, as an artist, my job is to tell the truth and then try to connect with these characters and people as honestly and deeply as possible.
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The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.
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But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice.
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When I was at my lowest, Tom Cruise reached out to me. He believed in me when other people didn't.
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It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.
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People care for their community and will invest in their community and will look out for each other if they are challenged to do so.
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If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom.
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I have been listening to people's advice. Being a parent, you need all the advice you can get.
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It's really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people.
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There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can't afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in - particularly for the English.
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I understand, as the young, attractive woman in film, that there's always going to be people seeking out extra salacious things for you to do.
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Rob fought this so hard. He hired a musicologist in England to analyse the song. It turns out that musicologists use a scale of twelve notes and if eight of those notes are present in both songs, then the accused, us, is deemed guilty. Which we were. Rob wouldn’t have it, so he then got an American musicologist to analyse it. He said the same. We lost again. John Denver got his per cent cut and a writer’s credit. Warners wanted to take it off the album on any subsequent pressings, but we said no. I still don’t hear it now. Denver died in 1997, shortly after it was eventually settled. God, imagine if we did that with all the tunes that sound like us? We’d make a fortune. Humh . . . there’s a thought.
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Sometimes, to be honest with you, our lyrics were written a day before the vocal had to be done.
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We need to reconnect with our people, our tribe. We need to be among them. We want this to be as intimate as possible. You can't do that in an airline hanger, mate.
