Benjamin Booker Quotes

As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type of music. I want to take these blues melodies over aggressive guitars. I heard the sound I wanted to make. I knew what I wanted to do. It wasn't ever there before.

Benjamin Booker

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I'm not the kind of guy who hems and haws about how he feels.

Joey Kramer

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When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Anna Pavlova

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I've seen kids turn their lives around. It's usually a kid who's outside of the team-sport world, or maybe has a darker personality or doesn't fit in. Skateboarding ends up being something they latch onto. It sounds hokey, but finding a focus on something - whether it's skateboard or playing your guitar - can be life changing.

Jeff Ament

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The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

Michael Heizer

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It's exciting to share an art form that I would never have imagined sharing with the deaf community. Doing musicals, it's not like, 'Oh, I'll do a musical with a deaf person.'

Michael Arden

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I can never consent to being dictated to.

John Tyler

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Awards are always a pleasant surprise. They are the candy-floss parts of our job - a lovely added extra to attract people's attention. The bottom line is that you want to sell tickets.

Sophie Thompson

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The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.

Rob Marshall

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Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Ronald Reagan

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I used to not talk much to anyone about my investments.

Mohnish Pabrai

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When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

Denis Johnson

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I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access.

Dorothy Denning

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