Beck (Beck Hansen) Quotes
I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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Of course, my interests and my focus change and become more diverse, more worldly. At the same time, I am interested in the simple basics, which is I love to dance and I love to make people dance.
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I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?
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We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.
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An author's ability to bring a marketing synopsis to the table - along with a great manuscript - makes a difference in what books get picked up. This is true for both fiction and nonfiction titles. You need to show your publisher what you've got in your marketing arsenal.
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Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
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Being compared to the greatest-ever safety is pretty ridiculous. I continue to work toward that, but I'm not there and I know that.
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I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.
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I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.
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If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.
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The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
