Charlie Watts Quotes

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

Charlie Watts

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LoveGlitterPlayLightsUpPlaying

I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

Jeanette Winterson

LifeThinkPricePrivate LifeOpen

My gift, if that's not too grandiose a term, is one for describing novels, biographies, and works of history in such a way that people want to read them.

Michael Dirda

HistoryPeopleGiftWantWayRead

The first time I ever met Stephen King, he came up to me, and we went to shake hands, and he had, like, this fake rubber rat that he kind of, you know, shook at me. You know, and I said, 'No, this is a cliche - this can't be. Stephen King is trying to scare me with a fake rat?' It was just really weird.

Rob Reiner

TimeKingMeFakeWeirdHands

We certainly should support both parties having observers at the polling stations to make sure that neither side does anything that allowed a fraudulent vote. That's a very healthy check on the process.

Ron Johnson

SupportProcessHealthyVoteSide

I was emotionally and physically punched in the stomach. This is not a place where you go and deliver the lines and then you come back. It's kind of a life-changing experience. But it can't get better than this for any actor - this is like an opera.

Javier Bardem

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Vicente Fox beat the PRI by gambling on a simple formula: Marketing + Money = Presidency.

Denise Dresser

MoneySimpleGamblingMarketingFox

Time's up on cheesy, lesser, boring roles for females in the stories that we try to tell.

Debra Granik

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It's not my ambition to direct lots of films. I think if I direct one film in my whole life, why rush it?

David Thewlis

LifeAmbitionThinkWhyFilmRush

No one is different from the other. I'm very grateful that I have a diverse group of fans as well. We welcome individuality over here in my world, and I think that my fans can see and feel that.

Ciara

GratefulWelcomeWorldThinkFeel

If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.

Brit Hume

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I'm not a sports fan, but I remember watching highlights with post-rock guitar instrumental music over these slow-motion shots of football players. It's triumphant, and it's emotional, and that's what sports are for.

Brian Reitzell

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You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

William J. H. Boetcker

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