Jimmy Napes Quotes

I take enormous pleasure in seeing artists go out and sing my songs, or being in the corner of a festival, and everyone's singing along, and no one knows that you've written it.

Jimmy Napes

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SingingYouSeeingGoEveryoneOut

As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.

John Burnside

ChildWorldCuriosityLikeCreatures

I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.

Andrew Wiles

Too MuchAnythingInterestLastMuch

I've done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia's a developed country, you've got a lot of taxes, rents are high and its quite difficult to survive as an artist especially when you are just coming up.

Andrew Jack

TimeEatingSurviveSoupYouArtist

Jobs will come back when the economy recovers, but they will never be the same.

Maynard Webb

BackWillNeverEconomySameCome

But really it was just, it was perfect. You know, I actually got that feeling like you know what, maybe this is why I'm alive, you know - maybe this is why I'm here on this on earth.

Stefano Langone

YouPerfectEarthAliveKnowWhy

I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

Shirley Temple

AchievementStartAdviceAwardYou

I just train hard and worry about the things I can control.

Robbie Lawler

ControlWorryI CanTrainHardJust

I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.

Douglass North

LifeResearchMy LifeImpression

I would like to think that enough examples of non-compromise are going to start people thinking that there must be a better way to try to govern the country.

David Souter

PeopleStartThinkThinkingBetter

I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.

William Westmoreland

ThinkLovedBeenI ThinkRespected

I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as an actor for a period of time, but I have struggled as an audience, and I struggle more now than then. I was always a movie guy.

Sean Penn

LoveTimeStruggleYouNowActor

You don't always have to start over to create an emotional reaction to your product. It's always powerful to deliver a breakthrough, but there's also a true art to making something great even better.

Mark Parker

GreatArtStartBetterYouPowerful

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