Richard O'Brien Quotes
There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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Women are sacred.
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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
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Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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You can't impose a legacy.
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I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
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You're allowed to work hard and have good things and do good things.
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity.
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Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved.
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Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.
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I think comparisons are very on the surface. If I sing, like, 'Park Bench People,' and there's kind of a social undertone, people will say I sound like Gil Scott-Heron. But for me, the more insightful comparison would be a Roberta Flack or Nina Simone - people who really mix different genres of music.
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable.
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There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.
