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Walter Becker Quotes

I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 20, 1950 - September 3, 2017

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Time Think Doing Discussion Where

All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

Jesse Eisenberg

Guilty Way Pleasures Just Wired

There was a time when we were in a van and handing out the CDs at Warped Tour. We had a two-song EP that we were just handing out for free just to promote ourselves. That was on the 'Waking the Fallen' record, and we were just going around and handing out the CDs and stuff like that.

Time Free Out Going Just Stuff

The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William Carlos Williams, who was called a communist, or Ginsberg, whose 'Howl' was prosecuted, or myself. If you practise poetry the way I think it needs to be done, you're going to put yourself in jeopardy.

Myself Job Yourself Poetry Think

Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare and so on.

World You Know Important Understand

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

Job Building Insurance Said Actor

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

Christopher Hitchens

Life Good Death People Me You

I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading.

Great Go Talk Month Just Tournament

I watched films growing up, but no more than the next guy, really. Working on 'Hugo' made me appreciate cinema and the art of cinema a lot more.

Asa Butterfield

Art Me Growing Up Appreciate Cinema

Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content.

William Shatner

Road Regret You Worst Emotion Human

Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!

Love Cooking Long Go Kind Never

It's quite amazing to me, as I walk around a supermarket or a health food shop, to observe the number of Fairtrade choices: not just staples such as coffee, tea, fresh fruits and rice, but cocoa and chocolate, herbs and spices, honey, ice cream, and jams.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

Health Coffee Food Walk Tea Amazing

I was on 'Gilmore Girls' for seven years and had a couple decent years after that. Then, two years of almost nothing. I had jobs here and there, but I got very, very scared.

Nothing Two Years Scared Here Got

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