Bruce Forsyth Quotes
When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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I think world creation and monster creation and all of that stuff is exciting as a secondary element of storytelling. When it becomes more important than storytelling, I get very nervous, and you sort of lose me a little bit.
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Love is the essence of life; love touches all of our work. Love never leaves us. It clings to us, and we cling to it.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.
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When I was a child, life felt so slow because all I wanted to do was get into show business. Each day seemed like a year, but when you get older, years pass like minutes. I wish there was a tape recorder where we could just slow our lives down.
