Ralph Hodgson Quotes
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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
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I write music every day.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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And that's the way it is.
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'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I do find acting cathartic.
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I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.
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I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.
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I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That's one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.
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I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I am a meek, meek shopper.
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I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.
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'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.
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Deceit, Deceive, Decide just what you believe... I see faith in your eyes, Never you hear the discouraging lies. I hear faith in your cries... Broken is the promise, Betrayal... The healing hand held back by the deepened nail... Follow the god that failed.
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You wanna be big, you lift big weights. You wanna be little, you lift little weights.
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It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
