Phil Collen Quotes
We thought a lot of the heavy metal stuff was ridiculous. And we still do. We didn't want to be Duran Duran either, so we were somewhere in the middle. We always felt a little bit different because we were never really part of any movement. People said what we were doing wasn't pure rock and stuff like that. Then we said, yeah, but what we did was better than pure rock.
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Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.
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I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.
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The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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I can afford to say what I wish.
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In sport, Americans are prominent in the Premier League - both on and off the pitch.
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Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
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The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
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Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part and not enough on their own enterprise.
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I try and wake up relatively early. I listen to some music and check Twitter. I also make sure I weigh myself and check how long I slept. I do that because knowing that data seems better than not knowing it.
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We thought a lot of the heavy metal stuff was ridiculous. And we still do. We didn't want to be Duran Duran either, so we were somewhere in the middle. We always felt a little bit different because we were never really part of any movement. People said what we were doing wasn't pure rock and stuff like that. Then we said, yeah, but what we did was better than pure rock.
