Benmont Tench Quotes
I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country house hotel in the middle of nowhere, with full room service.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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When there were first rumors of us going after LeBron, some fans wondered how we could do that after all that happened. But after the 'Sports Illustrated' letter, every fan is thrilled to have him back. That was so heartfelt.
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Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
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All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.
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It might take me an hour to get to feel at ease with somebody. I don't find it easy to go into a room full of 10 people and give it all away. In the pilot season in Los Angeles I've done that a couple of times.
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But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.
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I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I was on staff at a couple of shows. I did some feature films, including originals and adaptations.
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I'm expecting to get a couple more years out of these computers.
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I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me.
