Bernard Sumner Quotes
If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.
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We must never relent in our efforts to resolve conflicts through diplomacy and through all of the instruments bestowed by the Charter of the United Nations.
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I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also around the world. And it has been in my family since birth.
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
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I had an unhealthy obsession with 'Only Fools and Horses.' I still have to watch an episode with my brother every two or three weeks.
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Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.
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My whole career - I have been really lucky.
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I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
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I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.
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I have made a lot of mistakes raising the four Jenner kids.
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I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.
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There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.
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When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.
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As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.
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Rian Malan was one of the first younger writers to perceive and write about a darkness in the South African psyche that goes deeper than mere politics. To some extent, that's my territory, too.
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My mum is just the sweetest person on Earth, and if I turned into her, I wouldn't be that upset at all; in fact, it would be an honour.
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Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.
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I did 'Spring Awakening' on Broadway for about three years, and I did over 500 performances.
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He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
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For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.
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If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.
