Tom Scholz Quotes
All Boston songs are fairly difficult to translate to the stage. None of them are especially easy to play or sing. A lot of them, of course, have very involved arrangements with lots of different sounds and sections that are difficult to play and sing. The prospect of doing any Boston song live is always an endeavor in itself.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.
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I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
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When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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All I do is watch TV and films, and when I'm not doing that, I'm making them. I need a hobby!
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A man who was loved by 300 woman singled me out to live with him. Why? I was the only one without a cat.
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All Boston songs are fairly difficult to translate to the stage. None of them are especially easy to play or sing. A lot of them, of course, have very involved arrangements with lots of different sounds and sections that are difficult to play and sing. The prospect of doing any Boston song live is always an endeavor in itself.
