Brian May Quotes
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.
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Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.
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There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.
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The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
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I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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Humor writing is something that comes naturally to me.
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I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.
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Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
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What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.
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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.
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Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight.
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The present moment is our ain, The neist we never saw!
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Stuff just comes out all the time, sometimes when I sing live it really comes alive and I sort of... I write songs and then almost... not forget about it, but live it really comes out and I suddenly realise what I've written. I don't know where it all comes from.
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History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.
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The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.
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There has been a change in consciousness that makes this one of the most interesting periods of American history, maybe the most interesting. There's a loss of belief in the corporate system; there's a recognition that something is fundamentally wrong, So there's an opening to a whole different vision of where to go forward. I think that's where we are in the question, so let's not blow it; let's see what we can develop over time.
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We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.
