Richard Neal Quotes
Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
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It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.
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One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.
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The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation. Being good and playing the songs is not enough.
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I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.
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I still love R&B - I kind of literally listen to everything.
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I was always the serious kid.
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For most Americans, poetry plays no role in their everyday lives. But also for most Americans, contemporary painting or jazz or sculpture play no role either. I'm not saying poetry is singled out as a special thing to ignore.
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Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.
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Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.
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When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.
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Financially, people always assume you're good when you're a rapper.
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I've never liked much of reality television, mostly because it involves humiliation.
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I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
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I'll photograph weddings, friends - I'm not too good for anything.
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If I really buckle down, I think one day I could be a very good actress.
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I don't think Wayne Rooney would be affected if you booed him, that's just how he is, but others go under. They really suffer with it. I think I'm somewhere in the middle... now. I've become tougher as I've got older.
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I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.
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I think everyone sometimes feels intimidated by themselves when they see themselves on the screen.
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We're a nation of immigrants - there's no question about that. But we're also a nation of laws. I think we have to honor both of those.
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'The West Wing' was really important for me for a lot of reasons. It was the first thing I did when I got out to Los Angeles. I'd just finished school, and I was so naive.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.
