Linda Perry Quotes
I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart.
Quotes to Explore
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Age for me is just a number.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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I try to be a good father, and my kids are the most important thing in my life.
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For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.
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I started the company in 1986, but we didn't have the money to do a show until '92.
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It's one of the things I respect about Time Warner and Turner: their understanding of CNN's independence.
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I believe in the greatness of our democracy.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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My music sounds different because the techniques are archaic, seeing as most people only record digitally.
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I want to show people my interpretation of what creating music is, and this is where it comes from: the heart.
