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 have a trainer, a really nice woman named Nina Greenberg, and she got me a training plan, and we go running in the canyons in Malibu. It's just beautiful up there, absolutely gorgeous. You see bobcats up there sometimes.
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I haven't always been confident enough to rock different styles because I used to be really shy.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso.
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People hate the feeling that technology is dragging them into the future, that they're not really following what's happening, but being forced to be involved. Even if it makes their life better, it still feels like it's happening against their will.
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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.
