Tom Petty Quotes
The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.
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We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.
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The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.
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When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one's own music being played.
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When I first started writing music, it was to express that. I was trying to find God and trying to find meaning in my life. That's what my music was about. It wasn't to entertain.
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Sure, I'd love to have children some day. But world domination comes first.
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The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.
