Andy Summers Quotes
If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
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In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.
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I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious.
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Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
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Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.
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I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.
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That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
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There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.
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When you live in a community where people know you, it makes you want to be good and decent. It's a strong influence.
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It has been my personal experience that the true flavour, the real fun, the continuous excitement of work lie in the process of doing it rather than in having it over and done with.
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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
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Let us choose to believe something good can happen.
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I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
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I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that... I've been kind of reckless with things. I'm a passionate person. I'm a super passionate person. I think there's definitely been sorrow in my life, good and bad. I think it comes through. I hope it comes through in my writing because to me that's what artistry is.
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If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.
