Beck (Beck Hansen) Quotes
I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.

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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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There's no business like show business.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
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After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some sort of inner turmoil or some sort of character arc. That's the great thing about acting, so many different things and being really diverse in your choices.
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In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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God forbid we keep a couple secrets in this day and age!
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I want to be alone with my thought.
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I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.