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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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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I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.
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My greatest pleasure is going out on a horrible, cold, wet January morning to pick the vegetables for our Sunday lunch, putting them in a muddy pile on the table, and then spending 45 minutes washing and preparing them. I like doing it because it's so different to what I do in the week. The same holds for cleaning the car or shining my shoes.
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What most people do is they make terrific films, one in three if you're very lucky, maybe one in five. So you just have to keep on, you have to get through the bad bits.
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In 1976, the average supermarket stocked 9,000 unique products; today that number has ballooned to 40,000 of them, yet the average person gets 80%–85% of their needs in only 150 different supermarket items. That means that we need to ignore 39,850 items in the store.
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I didn't wanna be looked at as no idiot, and I didn't wanna feel like I was uneducated, because I really stopped going to school at 15. I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit.
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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.
