Phil Collen Quotes
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.
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It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.
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Originating something is what every actor waits for. Usually, those opportunities are offered to people who already have a name.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
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Since I am coming to that holy room, Where, with thy choir of saints forevermore, I shall be made thy music; as I come I tune the instrument here at the door, And what I must do then, think here before.
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You're only as good as your latest album. You just have to try really hard.
