Paul Shaffer Quotes

James Brown was my favorite, my absolute idol. Every time I played with him was like a music lesson, and I never thought I could be so funky! I mean, a white boy from Canada - a Jew - getting down with his funky bad self!

Paul Shaffer

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MusicTimeThoughtSelfBadDown

Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is.

Jerry Jeff Walker

MusicCountryPlayCountry Music

I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.

John Hench

WorkTwoAnimationCallWetDry

My family made it through Hurricane Sandy. We have water, power, and a roof, but the survivor's guilt makes me want to hide. Sneak away from the brilliance of life. It shouts at me: 'Don't enjoy anything too much; people are suffering.' I feel childlike somehow.

Alysia Reiner

LifeFamilyPowerWaterSuffering

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.

Mikhail Bakunin

PassionHopeDayEvery DayDespair

When I left EastEnders, I could have earned an absolute fortune from sexy calendars, shoots for lads' mags, fitness videos and reality shows. But I always turned them down.

Michelle Ryan

FitnessRealitySexyDownAlways

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don't do for us.

Joyce Meyer

LifePeopleOutUsDependentHow

With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed.

Judy Chicago

WorkWomenYouEarlyDoneDisguise

The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to let me be in their band for two or three years. And they finally let me in on the harmonica, actually, and then the keyboards, and finally the guitar.

Jonny Greenwood

MeRestGuitarFriendsThreeBand

I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.

Chris O'Dowd

WomenStrongLovedKnowStrong Women

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

Alfred Hitchcock

PoliceAfraidAgainstJustThem

I was 12 and read my first romance novel; it was a sweeping desert saga, and I got to the end of it and was like, 'I want to go back and start all over again!' That emotional response to the book and getting to the end of a story you love is what inspires me to write the next book.

Sylvia Day

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I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

Peter Carey

MeNeverStretchGoingFurtherThan

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