Beck (Beck Hansen) Quotes
It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.
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For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
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Image means a lot. It is everything in the business that we are in.
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This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
