Steve Prefontaine (Steve Roland "Pre" Prefontaine) Quotes
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I'm no producer's kid.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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I don't care who is attacking my son. I still support him; I still love him.
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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
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As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.
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Maybe I need to make a change, or maybe it's living here in New York or using social media or working in media and entertainment, but I feel like I'm constantly trying to maintain this sense of, 'Why do I do what I do?'
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When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.
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We are bigger in number than as many as 131 independent nations, why should we remain deprived of independence?
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'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.
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I have never seen anything like that. It was pretty impressive.
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And that's what's so inspirational about something like DIONYSUS. It actually records the moment that it happened. Kind of like a document of the period.
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Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
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I want to reaffirm, as king, my faith in the unity of Spain.
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I realized that a dancer's life is very short and I had so much of a creative energy in me that I needed outlets to do other things so that's when I started acting more and it all kind of blended together. When you're on stage you're acting and you're dancing, it started blended together now.
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I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.
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I don't really write. I'm an on-the-spot type of person. This beat, let's listen to it; let's vibe. And then I'll do a melody, and then we'll go back and do it.
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The one day you don't go into practice and use that day to the fullest is the one day someone is going to beat you.
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Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.
