Tommy Bolin (Thomas Richard Bolin) Quotes
You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.
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Women just love to shop.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.
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I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.
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My dad is an English teacher, and my mom is a textiles artist. My parents made my sisters and me feel that if we wanted to pursue something creative, it could be done. They've always been supportive of everything from the beginning.
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I have three incredible nieces and a nephew who's going off to college. To hear them say they're proud of me left me in tears.
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Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.
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I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.
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I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.
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The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.
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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.
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I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.
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The only cure for anxiety is to get down on our knees.
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When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion.
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As you sell your soul and sow your seeds, and you wound yourself and your loved ones bleed. And your habits grow and your conscience feeds, on all that you thought you should be.
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Observing what is around us and registering errant impressions is a state not so much of passive inaction as of alert receptivity. Allowing ourselves to notice, to be open to our surroundings, is a way of awakening our curiosity in the world outside ourselves.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.
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Emotions are lovely. Even if they fall to the negative for a time. The sun will rise again another day. The sadness perhaps never forgotten, but a new day enjoyed in another way. A way that could not have been but for the sadness’s existence.
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If you must come out and say it, do it in dialog, not narration.
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You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.
