John Mayall Quotes
I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.
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Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.
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The people that usually have the most trouble with my books are the ones that pick them apart from a theological point of view.
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Mars is a long ways away. The moon is only 240,000 miles, but Mars is in the millions. It's too risky without spending more time going to the moon.
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When we first started the company, I didn't have any thoughts of franchising. We just had company-owned stores.
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I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.
