Jeffrey Tate Quotes
Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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Working with Disney is really and truly like working with a family. Everyone is so supportive and so wonderful. I've worked with Disney since I was twelve, and they've given me so many opportunities that I'll forever be grateful for.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.
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There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.
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I'm very aware of the presence of a reader, and that probably is a reaction against a lot of poems that I do read which seem oblivious to my presence as a reader.
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We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us from seeing it.
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Oh I wish that I could paint again. Paint is an instrument without which I cannot survive for any length of time. Whenever I even think of gray, green and white, I am overcome with quivers of lust. Then I wish that this war would end and that I might paint again.
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Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy.
