Paul McCartney Quotes
Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.
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A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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I don't do negative things.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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I didn't think of rap with that type of south feel and that look and the hay and all that.
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Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed.
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I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.
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The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a continuity of my interests, so when I start writing a book, if I call it 'a novel,' it separates it from other books.
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Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.
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Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.
