Roy Wood Quotes
When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies.Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
Sally Ride -
In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
Barbara Lynn -
I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.
Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine -
I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.
Oleg Cassini -
I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
Usain Bolt
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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
Barry Diller -
Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.
Zac Brown Band -
The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.
Taiye Selasi -
My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.
Natalie Gulbis -
There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.
Ian Anderson -
He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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First of all, I'm Middle Eastern; I'm Iranian, so to be playing a leading role in a big Hollywood movie, I think, is possibly one of the first times.
Nazanin Boniadi -
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
Jack Prelutsky -
I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
Kate Christensen -
My first play was 'The Room', written when I was twenty-seven.
Harold Pinter -
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
Cardinal Richelieu -
Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.
Jack Zipes
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I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotion, as many authors do.
Tatiana de Rosnay -
Cheap Trick has played with every band on the planet.
Adam Schlesinger -
I was writing songs by 12 and had a band by 14.
Jon Pardi -
I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.
Mary Wesley -
... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.
Flannery O'Connor -
When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies.
Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra