John Tempesta Quotes
When the recording button was on, I was just young and I don’t want to say naïve but I just wasn’t used to it. And it just took me years to gain the confidence going in there and really laying it down. So from that first record to where I am at now is like night and day.
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It's been clear for some time that FBI Director Comey has lost the confidence of Republicans, Democrats, and broader institutions, and his removal as FBI Director was probably overdue.
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When I talk to young girls about clothes, I tell them to show a lot of brains.
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But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.
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One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.
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I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.
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I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.
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As the years passed in my village, I witnessed poorly educated young men leaving to seek the greater comforts and liberations of big cities. I would see them on my visits to Delhi.
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Be comfortable. I think if you're comfortable, you exude confidence, and that leads to good style.
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Young writers should definitely research the current sounds and styles.
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Everybody wants to be a star right now, to be heard, to have a voice, so you have to give the confidence for people to have that ability - and give them the wardrobe to become a star.
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There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it.
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I'm more of a hands-on person. I like working with young people from the standpoint of providing support for the grassroots programs. State, national and Olympic champions begin at a grassroots level.
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I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.
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When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.
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If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory since childhood. These memories which live by the image and in virtue of the image become, at certain times of our lives and particularly during the quiet age, the origin and matter of a complex reverie: the memory dreams, and reverie remembers.
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People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.
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There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
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I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
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When the recording button was on, I was just young and I don’t want to say naïve but I just wasn’t used to it. And it just took me years to gain the confidence going in there and really laying it down. So from that first record to where I am at now is like night and day.
