Geoff Downes Quotes
I think when you follow a band, you're following a - and I don't like to use the term 'brand,' but you are following a kind of style, if you like. So I think you have to accept that there will be different people involved from time to time.
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If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.
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One of my favorite comics is 'Love and Rockets' by the Hernandez Brothers. They do such a wonderful job of showing you how the character of Maggie ages and really doesn't present that with any kind of judgment.
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It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.
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You can make serious pop, you know? There was a time when the best movies were the most popular, and I keep thinking that can happen again.
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There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie I feel her right with me.
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I do believe that there is a greater being that has brought me this far through life. Something or someone is on my side teaching me valuable lessons.
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I think when you follow a band, you're following a - and I don't like to use the term 'brand,' but you are following a kind of style, if you like. So I think you have to accept that there will be different people involved from time to time.
