Brian May Quotes
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
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To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.
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Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
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People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by that.
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Move on another plane in the name of one's own difference.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.
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We wouldn't have put it out with the name Queen on it if we didn't think it was musically up to scratch.
