Alexander Sutherland Neill Quotes
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.
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Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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God invented love, and it is therefore perfect, and dogs are better at celebrating this perfection than we are. When in doubt as to how we should feel, we could do far worse than trying to live life like the dogs.
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Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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I just think political correctness is crap.
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I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
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Bullies always have another target.
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I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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I love having music just to chill to and also to rev me up a bit.
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I think it is well . . . for the man in the street to realise there is no power on earth that can protect him from bombing, whatever people may tell him. The bomber will always get through. The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves.
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My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives.
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I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.
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I like to have everything smiley and happy for my husband. Men don't want to see a grumpy face at the end of a hard day.
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Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.
