Gary Numan Quotes
I became an air display pilot. I used to teach it. I was an examiner for a few years as well. It was great fun. I would still be doing it now if pretty much everyone I knew who was doing it hadn't died. In the first team I joined there were six people in it. By the time I stopped, there was only me and one other left - everyone else had died.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That's my nature.
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When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.
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I am always surprised by who wears my shoes. This is a good thing. There is no type of woman, but all my women like to feel feminine. They are women who are happy to be women.
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My mom suggested studying acting in college, but I was a bit scared to choose that path because I couldn't wrap my head around the drama school audition process.
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I think a reason why actors get reputations for being crazy and neurotic is because your life task is constantly in flux.
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I became an air display pilot. I used to teach it. I was an examiner for a few years as well. It was great fun. I would still be doing it now if pretty much everyone I knew who was doing it hadn't died. In the first team I joined there were six people in it. By the time I stopped, there was only me and one other left - everyone else had died.
