Maurice Gibb Quotes
So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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I've never seen hard work fail.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.
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For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.
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On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.
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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
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I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
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I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.
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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
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I wish I could say I was one of those people who loves working out, but I don't; it's just not that fun. But I make an effort to work out aggressively three times a week.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.
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Brad Pitt has something about him to where he's played different characters in all his movies, and every single time after he's done, I want to be him.
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Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.
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I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.
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My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.
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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
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So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking.
