Beck (Beck Hansen) Quotes
There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.
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I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.
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I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
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We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.
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I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.
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I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.
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My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.
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I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.
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It's simple to get a concussion, you know. I don't know how many I've had over my career, you know, but I've definitely had my fair share.
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As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.
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First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that.
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I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people.
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European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.
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There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier's sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.
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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
