Steve Winwood Quotes
My goal has always been to make classic records, classic albums. Sometimes the recording process and the era it was recorded in means the production leans in a particular way, but to me they are all part of the same process.
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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All my books are optimistic!
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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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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People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.
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Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
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I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.
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No person is perfect. I haven't, thank God, had any infidelity issues. But you can't say what you won't ever do. And you can't say that you won't have forgiveness in your heart if there were to be an issue like that.
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Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.
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Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.
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I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.
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Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
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I don't like to be too submissive in the way I dress. I like quite boyish things, so I hardly ever wear high heels.
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American Jews are no longer a homogenous minority; we come in all colors and from all corners of the world.
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Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.
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How is clean, painless nonexistence any worse than clean, painless death?
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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
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I went to the library and began to read some stuff on my own. My discovery of James Baldwin was life-changing. I read Go Tell It on the Mountain first, and that was hugely impactful.
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My mother always wanted to give back.
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We make war that we may live in peace.
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My goal has always been to make classic records, classic albums. Sometimes the recording process and the era it was recorded in means the production leans in a particular way, but to me they are all part of the same process.
