Ned Beauman Quotes
I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.
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I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I'm going to find solutions wherever I can. I think it's all a priority. You can't just say, 'OK, I'm going to work on this but not that.' You have to work on all of it.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
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Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game.
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When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
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Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses.
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Seemeth it nothing to you, never to accuse, never to blame either God or Man? to wear ever the same countenance in going forth as in coming in? This was the secret of Socrates: yet he never said that he knew or taught anything... Who amongst you makes this his aim? Were it indeed so, you would gladly endure sickness, hunger, aye, death itself. (85).
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One meal option is a piece of poached chicken the size of your fist with a green salad sprinkled with lemon juice, carrots, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, and celery. Another is a cup and a half of quinoa with minced veggies, all cooked at once so the quinoa absorbs the nutrients.
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If I let a blue mood run rampant, before I know it I'm obsessing about the color of the satin lining in my coffin - will it match my dress? That's when I feel like Alice in Cancerland falling down the rabbit hole and just have to stop.
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Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.
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I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.
