Billy Duffy Quotes

Basically, Ian went through the process of doing the Doors, and through singing somebody else's stuff and detaching himself from being at the center of the band, I think he just gained some perspective on the fact that the Cult wasn't such a terrible place to be.

Billy Duffy The Cult

• Band
• The Doors
• Detaching
• Terrible Place

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• When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

  

  Carla Bley
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• I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
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• For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Life
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• We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Like
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  • Hype

• To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Done
  • Art
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• I lost my confidence.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Lost
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• The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Bad
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• My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don't often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Design
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• In mind, she was of a strong and vigorous turn, having from her earliest youth devoted herself with uncommon ardour to the study of the law; not wasting her speculations upon its eagle flights, which are rare, but tracing it attentively through all the slippery and eel-like crawlings in which it commonly pursues its way.

  

  Charles Dickens
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• 'No I'm not no loser, I'll see you in Hell.'

  

  Kid Cudi

• I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.

  

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• After you kind of find your footing, sonnets are what comes easiest.

  

  Marilyn Nelson

• It hit me really hard that I want kids in my life.

  

  Patti Stanger
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• I love the stage - the fact that you only have one take to get it right, the interaction with the audience, and how every show is different even though you're doing the same thing.

  

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  • Different

• To unambiguously settle the questions of whether there was life on Mars, it will take scientists down on the surface.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Life

• I think sometimes maybe you're going to connect with the audience more than others, but the journey is about getting all there is to get out of this group of people.

  

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• We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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• I fantasized being a broadcaster.

  

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• Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside, grabbed a paintbrush, and painted a scarlet A across her chest. You know, like that woman in The Scarlet Letter? It was awesome. She didn't know what hit her. And then I said, 'Now everyone will know what you've done'. Ella: Do you realize that Hester Prynne is supposed to be a sympathetic character?

  

  Sara Shepard
  • Done
  • Art
  • Character

• Basically, Ian went through the process of doing the Doors, and through singing somebody else's stuff and detaching himself from being at the center of the band, I think he just gained some perspective on the fact that the Cult wasn't such a terrible place to be.

  

  Billy Duffy The Cult
  • Band
  • The Doors
  • Detaching