Ander Crenshaw Quotes
The bottom line, addressing defense spending cuts with a meat ax like sequestration will damage defense readiness for decades to come.
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
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In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.
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I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.
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I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
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Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.
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I have no intention of ever writing beauty tips on how to make an African-American nose look slimmer or Asian eyes look bigger. That's degrading. Asian eyes are what's beautiful about you and what makes you different.
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'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
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I concentrate on doing good projects.
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It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake up with this gnawing feeling in my stomach that I wasn't doing what I was meant to do.
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I'm really grateful to my fans - to all the people who support me.
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Gonpo Tso was born a princess. As a young woman, she dressed in fur-trimmed robes with fat ropes of coral beads strung around her neck. She lived in an adobe castle on the edge of the Tibetan plateau with a reception room large enough to accommodate the thousand Buddhist monks who once paid tribute to her father.
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It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.
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We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.
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No man is much pleased with a companion, who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness for himself.
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When women cut themselves off from men, they sink backward into psychological and spiritual stagnancy.
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I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.
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There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us.
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When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to make these silly, stupid short films, which, looking back now, were probably horrible.
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The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.
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The bottom line, addressing defense spending cuts with a meat ax like sequestration will damage defense readiness for decades to come.
