Paul McCartney Quotes
One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.
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When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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As I've got older, and since I cut all my hair off, I've felt a bit more liberated about trying different things out.
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I'm passionate about the issues that I care about, and I'm a really good listener.
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Don't get down on yourself that you can't run a 4K or dance all night long at a fun club. Give yourself a break.
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One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
