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I don't get the airplay that one in my position deserves. 'Twist and Shout' gets more airplay than 'The Twist,' and that's not right.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 3, 1941

Topics

More Right Position Twist Get Shout

My sister and I are really close. She's my little sister.

Sister She Little Close Really

When you're surrounded by a world of constant lies, manipulation, and deceit, that dark energy is bound to seep into you eventually.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

World Energy You Dark Manipulation

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

Education Time Attention Professional

Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it's not just stamina in your effort. It's also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you're not really going to get anywhere. You'll never become an expert.

Angela Duckworth

Effort Direction Grit You Become

A human being is only breath and shadow.

Shadow Human Breath Human Being Only

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

Giving Giving Up Say Movies Up

Success is 99 percent failure.

Success Failure Success Is Percent

All things take time. A lot of my films still run on cable and are in video stores, and there's a whole generation that doesn't know who I am. So, it's a dichotomy. In some people's minds I may never grow up.

Time I Am People Generation Grow

I think, when I was 25, nobody in the world knew who I was.

World Think Nobody Who Knew I Think

If I thought of myself as a movie star, I'd be an idiot. I don't know anyone who thinks like that. I don't even know movie stars who think like that.

Jonny Lee Miller

Stars Myself Think Thought Idiot

Music is still part of my life, but I hate the idea of people coming to see me play the guitar because they've seen me in movies. You want people who are listening to be only interested in the music.

Life Music Hate People Me Listening

I often turn to my books when my own writing is having a hard time.

Time Writing My Own Hard Turn Own

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