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Jeff Bridges Quotes

What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: December 4, 1949

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Character Yourself You Kind Line Up

When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with.

Me Start Young Try Him Tell

Some in Europe take a plane, fly to Silicon Valley, visit and look and come back and say we need to do the same thing. Well you can copy others... but if you always copy others, you never get ahead.

Fly You Look Back Copy Say

I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.

John D. Voelker

Fishing Me Woods Trees Look I Can

There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing in the English language is influenced by Shakespeare because, to a considerable degree, he shaped that language.

Writing Strong Language Argument

I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.

Job Television Always Buy Piano

'Boneless,' even though we were thinking about servicing it to radio, it made more sense putting a vocal on there. This was actually the first time that I really looked at doing a song for radio and kind of let go of some control and listened to a lot of different radio pluggers and had Ultra come in and help out with ideas.

Time Ideas Control Song Thinking Go

When you engage your brain, it just keeps getting fatter and richer and wonderful.

Brain You Engage Wonderful Just

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

Michelle Williams

Parents Independence Desire Know

Rapping was a hobby; when I went to college, there were a ton of dudes rapping. I think that's where I got my rapping chops up.

College Think Hobby Up Where Got

An instrumental album is something I've been wanting to do for a long time.

Time Long Long Time Something Been

I think things just happen to people. That's healthier, I feel, than believing there's some grand scheme where your story is already inscribed in the Book of Life. Books get rewritten.

Life People Book Story Think Feel

I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.

Music Me Listening Find I Can Want

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