My first film was a comedy, but after that I went always into more heavier stuff.
Paul Verhoeven
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This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal.
John Hawkins
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There's a lot of hours in the week if you use them properly.
Melvyn Bragg
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When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.
John Lydon
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I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.
Michael Giles
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Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly, the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of grass directly under the golfer's eyes as he morosely walks toward where he thinks his ball might be.
John Updike
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I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.
Sting
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It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.
Michael Reagan
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As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.
Loudon Wainwright III
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My dad showed me a football and would throw it up and have my dog - a German Shepherd - chase me around when I went after the ball. I caught it because I was scared of that dog. The next year, my dad talked to the commissioner of a local league and convinced him to let me play as a first grader with third graders.
Austin Seferian-Jenkins
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Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
Allen Ginsberg
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I started with things that I was troubled by or confused by or interested in, and then I wrote stories to try to puzzle my way through it. But the question is not how to represent war, because it's an abstract thing that's felt differently for all the characters.
Phil Klay
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Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
Peter De Vries
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