Steve Hackett Quotes
My father was able to play a number of musical instruments and I fell in love with classical music in my teens and I allowed it to influence me. I like to think I took and still do from classical music and various techniques, I have made classical albums and recorded seven different pieces of Bach on different albums and its all music too me.
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I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
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My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
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You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
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I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski
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I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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I'm a big fan of my father.
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I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
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I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
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My biggest break wasn't 'Rent;' it was the first job that ever paid me. I couldn't believe that they were paying me all that money to go around the country and do Shakespeare. I would have done it for free.
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'Last Man On Earth,' I have to say, is a love for me. I mean, a true passion. To people who haven't watched it or who've watched a little and thought, 'Ah, I don't know where this is going,' or whatever, I urge them to check it out again.
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My father was able to play a number of musical instruments and I fell in love with classical music in my teens and I allowed it to influence me. I like to think I took and still do from classical music and various techniques, I have made classical albums and recorded seven different pieces of Bach on different albums and its all music too me.
