Steve Hackett Quotes
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
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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.
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Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
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Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.
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As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.
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I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.
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When I was very little, I had an Essex accent.
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When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It's a status thing.
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I know that I'm not a criminal. People say that, but my music speaks for itself. And I believe in my music.
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I always collect images, maybe because I was working with historic material - but even if I were working with contemporary material, I would do the same thing. I keep a kind of index of them while I'm working. I find them incredibly useful, not so much to illustrate a time, but to give some sense of the feeling of a time.
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I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.
