Keith Emerson Quotes
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
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When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.
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The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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Vampires are handy characters, as they can do double duty as monster/villains and the classic, misunderstood romantic hero.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.
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Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
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Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.
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I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.
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Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.
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I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.
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My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.
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I was the only child born to Josephine Perry that survived. Mama had six other children before me, and all had passed very quickly and very young, all succumbing to a combination of illness and disease and the lack of strength to fight off both.
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I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
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Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking.
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If they want a photograph, then just take it.
