Van Morrison Quotes
I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
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I make work not to give answers but to question things.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.
