Van Morrison Quotes
My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
Quotes to Explore
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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I'm a strange person - I don't really get rewards out of how many hits I have on YouTube. I love it, and I'm grateful, and it's important to me. But does it equal peace within me? No, it doesn't.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting, and I was so excited because I was like, 'Oh my God, this is my life!' I love fantasy football, and I play with my buddies, and my wife is frustrated with it.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say they're absolutely original and completely self-made.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
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All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?
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I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.
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...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?
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My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
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'I Want To Hold Your Hand' is a great classic by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, I sure love that song. I did like the classic version, a rock-oriented song, then someone heard me do it with the Grant Green approach - Grant Green and Larry Young did it, with a bossa nova beat on the funky side.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
