Jon Lord Quotes
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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I try to do my best.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.
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I've had some 'riotous excursions of the human spirit' alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it's time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way - they earned their stripes in combat.
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For me, if a company is really committed to diversity, that means everything. That means gender diversity, that means sexual orientation for me, that means race, ethnicity.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.
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In college, I interned at a production company and spent a lot of time on sets. I love music videos and felt I could be experimental and hone my craft in that genre, so I started there.
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Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.