Alan MacDiarmid Quotes
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
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Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
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'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
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Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.
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This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'
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I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's certain word combinations that I just can't say.
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I don't know that I appreciate things more because of how I grew up, but I am very realistic with what I expect out of people and what they expect out of me.
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Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.
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When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.
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Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.
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There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.
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Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.
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I am a very lucky person, and the harder I work, the luckier I seem to be.
