Joel Hodgson Quotes
Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.
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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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I've done 20 takes of a Vine before it goes out.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.
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The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.
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I deferred my third-year studies from university to go full time sailing to try and qualify for the 2012 London Olympics, which I did. I tried to go back to the university, but having won the silver medal, I just haven't been able to get back. And now I'm not sure if I ever will.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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The fact I am the most expensive player is not a burden.
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When I played a club in Salt Lake City, I complained to the crowd about the low turnout. It's always good to berate the people who paid to see you because you're upset about the people who didn't show up. It's called misplaced anger, and without it, I wouldn't have an act.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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Growing up, I was always wearing my brother's hand-me-downs, so nothing ever fit me. I told myself whenever I have my own money and my own choice with what I get to wear, it's always going to fit me correctly.
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Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.
