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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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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You can't expect humanitarian and development agencies to rebuild Syria. There is not enough money. There is not enough capacity. There are not enough skills.
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You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.
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When it comes time to where the new album gets closer, I start singing the song a cappella; I'll preview it on my Snapchat and get creative with it - just kind of bringing everybody into more than just listening to the record on album.
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I've got a vibe going on with a lot of what I've been doing, and to completely change it based off of me having a child might be a little confusing. I'm sure as my life goes forward, and she starts growing up, there will be a lot more things to include in my music. But, at this point, I'm just sticking to what I do.
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Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture - our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.
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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.
