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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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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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.
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Producing is a way of finding a great script that nobody's making, and believing in it, and doing what you can to get it made. It lets you work with your friends, people you really love to do something with.
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My ultimate style pin up is a tough question because my own style is influenced by so many sources. From Bianca Jagger to Kate Moss to Julie Christie. I love how they are always themselves and it never looks too 'done.'
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Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.
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My take is that every character requires a different character to be cast.
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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.
