Alex North Quotes
Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
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You either entertain an audience or you don't.
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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
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Things are forgotten so fast today. Even if 1,000 people are slaughtered, the next day you forget. There has to be new news every day.
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Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
