Lee Westwood Quotes
Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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I always wanted to write a book about a common food that becomes a commercial commodity and therefore becomes economically important and therefore becomes politically important and culturally important. That whole process is very interesting to me. And salt seemed to me the best example of that, partly because it's universal.
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I think in the future I'd like to be a little more prolific than I have been. The big dilemma, though, is when you say you want to do more stuff, what stuff do you do? Where are your standards? Fortunately for me, I think the parts get a little better as I get older.
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You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world.
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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
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Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it.
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Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.
