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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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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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
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What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, perseverance, and enterprise?
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Brushing her hair until it snapped with electricity
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I started buying vinyl records when I got into punk music because, in the punk scene in New Jersey, vinyl was more like a necessity than a luxury.
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I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable.
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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.
