Evan Parker Quotes
If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.Evan Parker
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
Taylor Swift -
I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
Garrett Dillahunt -
It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.
Ian Mcewan -
Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
Taylor Caldwell
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
Pat Cash -
I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
Mandy Patinkin -
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
Quentin Tarantino -
I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.
Walter O'Brien -
I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
Iggy Pop -
My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.
Jack McDevitt
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Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.
Irwin Redlener -
I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you.
Kate Hudson -
I enjoy every role I do.
Ian McShane -
My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
Harold Ramis -
Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
Jackie Chan -
We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
Edgar Mitchell
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To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.
David Sanborn -
You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
I consider myself a realist.
John McCain -
I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.
Uri Geller -
And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us.
Jami Gertz -
If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.
Evan Parker