David Gilmour Quotes
I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
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You have to be proud of who you are.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Denmark is, like, the flattest country on Earth.
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If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.
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Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.
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The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
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I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.
