"You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work."
-Paul McCartney
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"We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells."
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"I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life."
-Paul McCartney
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"It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it."
-Paul McCartney
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"My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish."
-Paul McCartney
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"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music."
-Paul McCartney
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"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."
-Tom Stoppard
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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."
-Jeff Bridges
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
-Tom Stoppard
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
-Novalis
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
-Caspar David Friedrich
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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
-Brian Eno
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