I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music.


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PAUL WATSON
No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned w...
TOM WATSON
Golf is a game of ego, but it is also a game of integrity: the most important thing is you do what i...
TOM WATSON
Men—I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is you...
EMMA WATSON
We want to empower people to take action and make change and translate their passion into really doi...
EMMA WATSON
I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
EMMA WATSON
If not me, who? If not now, when?
EMMA WATSON
It’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell...
EMMA WATSON
It’s almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I�...
EMMA WATSON
I am willing to be seen.
I am willing to speak up.
I am willing to keep going.
I am...
EMMA WATSON
It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have fai...
EMMA WATSON
I don't want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself.
EMMA WATSON
Don’t let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be wh...
EMMA WATSON
The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy.
EMMA WATSON
What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.
EMMA WATSON
I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.
EMMA WATSON
I'm willing to be seen.
I'm willing to speak up.
I'm willing to keep going.
I'm willi...
EMMA WATSON
I'm reading so much and exposing myself to so many new ideas. It almost feels like the chemistry and...
EMMA WATSON
If not me, who?
If not now, when?
EMMA WATSON
If you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing thin...
EMMA WATSON
When you go to work, you are a Christian at your workplace. You're not a broadcaster who happens...
BENJAMIN WATSON
I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an ...
EMMA WATSON
We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of...
PAUL WATSON
In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.
BARRY WATSON
I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with bei...
BARRY WATSON
I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man ...
BARRY WATSON
It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.
BARRY WATSON
Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about ever...
BARRY WATSON
I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. ...
BARRY WATSON
I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get insi...
BARRY WATSON
I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people ...
EMMA WATSON
We share our planet quite naturally with a permanent aeroplankton; a buoyant ecology too soft to hea...
LYALL WATSON
I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggl...
EMILY WATSON
Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.
WILLIAM WATSON
Even in the lives of fishes, sensation is seldom a matter of one thing or another. Senses overlap. T...
LYALL WATSON
The bare knowledge of God's will is inefficacious, it doth not better the heart. Knowledge alone is ...
THOMAS WATSON