Alan Sparhawk Quotes
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
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The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
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I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!
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What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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I grew up quick because my family was away a lot, and I took care of my sister. Then in my 20s, I went through my teens, with these 'wild abandon' things.
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His eye a ring inside a ring inside a ring That leers up, joyless, vile, in meek obscenity - This is the devil. Flesh to flesh, he bleatsThe herd back to the pit of being.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
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I really enjoy being with my fans. They offer great support and encouragement to me. I like signing autographs and posing for pictures.
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When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are.
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Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until my youngest child went to school, and then I began - the first morning - and I've never stopped.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn't understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-makers didn't understand what we were doing, either. There were actual fistfights between film-makers and video-makers. I was witness to one.
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Anybody who's putting out records is probably not making money at it.
