Walter Becker Quotes

I think that there's the self-imposed pressure to come up with something that's good. For guys like us, that's much more important than any external pressure could really be.

Walter Becker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Veggies and fruit are known to harbor bacteria, and so your body naturally wants to avoid them. I used to beat myself up about trying to get enough fresh food and protein like I did before getting pregnant. But then I resigned myself to the fact that my body is going to crave what it needs.

Anna Kaiser

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My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.

Michael Douglas

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If you look back to 2008, people didn't have smartphones. Now everyone essentially has a smartphone.

Steve Mollenkopf

PeopleYouLookBackNowEveryone

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

Roscoe Mitchell

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I find it a very, very powerful thing to be yourself and not to try and be something else and to use that as your biggest shield and your biggest attack in the world - to just be you.

Lukas Forchhammer

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Feeling a few nerves is necessary and positive. That tension is a good thing: it's a sign that you're doing something you like, that you're passionate about, and about which you have a great sense of responsibility and respect for.

Julen Lopetegui

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I love how New York as an idea is less a paradigm of manifest destiny and more a romance for the social orphans of the world. We live here to be among the towers and the crowds.

Chris Benz

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I am 5ft 10in. I got my height from my dad, who was very rangy. I like being tall.

Cornelia Parker

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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

Anthony Trollope

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Acting for the Indian audience is surely on my bucket list; it may take some time, though.

Pierce Brosnan

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I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts.

Phil Collins

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People have the strangest ideas about dwarves.

Peter Dinklage

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