S. D Gordon Quotes
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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I grew up with my stepfather in Brighton, but I did spend a lot of time with my natural father, and I was loved by both, so I suppose the advantage of this was that I wasn't bound by one set of experiences; I always had an alternative.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
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Certainly, grades only matter so much when you're in Hollywood. But I became an utterly motivated, devoted, committed student. I was a good student because I was convinced that it would somehow help me in my quest to become a filmmaker.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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Pilates is great.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is L.A., obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.
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I thought about being an actor, and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do just to stay sane.
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My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.
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The only reason for mastering technique is to make sure the body does not prevent the soul from expressing itself.
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I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
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Faith is blind...to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God.
