Chris Squire Quotes
I like the Foo Fighters a lot - apart from them being friends of mine as well. They're definitely a fantastic live act to see: so much energy and possibly even bigger in Europe than they are in the U.S., and that's great.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
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Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
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Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.
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I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.
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You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.
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And the two planes that were taking the band and crew that we had taken out to San Diego were flying out after the show. And so I was never supposed to be on that plane.
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I like old cars, old watches, anything with a vintage, antique kind of a feel to it. I'm just more in tune with that than anything else.
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I like the Foo Fighters a lot - apart from them being friends of mine as well. They're definitely a fantastic live act to see: so much energy and possibly even bigger in Europe than they are in the U.S., and that's great.
