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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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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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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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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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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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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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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Never say never. I always want to look like myself - that's key for me. I don't want to look like a different person, I don't want my face frozen.
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Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
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If you get married, you become vulnerable.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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I applied to Yale, and I got in.
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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.
