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• There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Singers
  • Liverpool
  • Dominic Behan

• When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Work
  • Together
  • Marriage

• I like watching sports, you know, all sorts of stuff.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Know
  • Sports
  • Stuff

• Everybody's slow right now, there's nothing happening musically, everybody's all on cable television and being manipulated by all the television right now, what's on cable telling people what to listen to and stuff.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • People
  • Television
  • Cables

• Just like the breakthroughs, the bad stuff always takes you by surprise.

  

  Gail Giles
  • Stuff
  • Surprise
  • Breakthrough

• The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.

  

  Francis Ford Coppola
  • Trouble
  • Remembered
  • The Godfather

• There's stuff that everybody does that they don't know they do.

  

  Nik Kershaw
  • Know
  • Stuff
  • Everybody

• I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.

  

  Blake Judd
  • Stuff
  • Musician
  • Signatures

• All my feather stuff is in L.A. at a temperature-controlled stage-storage place. I keep all my good stuff there because if I had it all in my house, I wouldn't have any room for my regular clothes. It has to, like, not live here.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • House
  • Clothes
  • Storage

• Reputations stick with you. It's harder to forget about stuff you do in this league, because somebody's always going to bring it up ... Sometimes guys get bad reputations but they don't deserve it.

  

  Chris Kaman
  • Forget
  • League
  • Reputations

• Now if I go through it again, I think I would be a lot more open about it. I admire people who have been open like Melissa Ethridge and women I see walking around facing it without wigs and all of that stuff. I think I would be more courageous next time.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Writing
  • Why
  • DNA

• I just want to keep creating stuff, work regularly and learn how to use a computer properly.

  

  Paul Putner
  • Want
  • Use
  • Computer

• About 1.2% of the human genome is made up of genes, things that encode for proteins, the stuff that we consider us. There is about 8.3% that's a virus. In other words we're probably about seven times more virus than we are human genes, which is kind of a weird way to thinking about yourself.

  

  Carl Zimmer
  • Way
  • Humans
  • Made

• The stockbrokers, their hair isn't long and full of leaves and stuff like that, so they don't catch your eye. They're wearing the tie-dye, so they don't stick out, but you don't see them. The ones you see are the ones with the leaves in their hair, the matted hair and all that kind of stuff.

  

  Bob Weir Grateful Dead
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Stockbrokers

• It´s just...today has really sucked, and when you´re around stuff doesn´t seem so crappy.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Stuff
  • Suck
  • Crappy

• Shared world has done some world building and brings (in the case of FR and SW) a big audience. With your own work, you're more creatively free. In a way, the shared world stuff has a high floor but a ceiling.

  

  Paul S. Kemp
  • World
  • Audience
  • Building

• My friend and I were in a band together and we used to always refer it it as 'floor-core,' meaning that we would sit on the floor and play stuff.

  

  Oneohtrix Point Never
  • Friend
  • Meaning
  • Refer

• Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Actor
  • Stuff
  • Actress

• I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

  

  Hasil Adkins
  • Songs
  • Stuff
  • Market

• The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen

  

  Tony Goldwyn
  • Decision
  • Matter
  • Happens

• Are you the stuff that hero's are made of? Or are you a jellyfish in a skirt?

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Hero
  • Made
  • Skirt

• Anytime you run a gimmick offence, you're a little bit afraid - you're not sound in what you're doing in your base stuff.

  

  Richard Sherman
  • Running
  • Sound
  • Littles

• Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one (that you could just transpose electronically), and he did all different types of attack, with and without pedals, all that kind of stuff.

  

  Gail Zappa
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Library

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