Rick Allen Quotes
You know, people have said to me, 'I don't know what I would have done if I'd have gone through what you went through.' I just turn around and say, 'Well neither did I.' Until you discover that part of yourself, it's inexplicable. You just have to go through the experience, and somehow you're inspired.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.
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I had heard that Robert Duvall was interested in doing 'Lonesome Dove,' and he's one of those actors with whom I'd work on any project. So I tracked down the script and started to bug the producer, Dyson Lovell, to get in there.
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I get up every single day trying to repay a debt that I can never repay. Never. And I will work hard. Because I don't know why I was saved. I don't know.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.
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Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
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It's a waste to not say anything with art.
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After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.
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Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.
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Roger [Corman] didn't actually hire me, though. I was hired by AIP [American International Pictures], the studio that made the picture, which was Sam Arkoff and Jim Nicholson. It was a great learning experience for me, because not only did I work on the script, but they hired me back to go on location when they were making the movie, to write new scenes and so forth.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.
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I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual. It's sensual. It's alive!
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You know, people have said to me, 'I don't know what I would have done if I'd have gone through what you went through.' I just turn around and say, 'Well neither did I.' Until you discover that part of yourself, it's inexplicable. You just have to go through the experience, and somehow you're inspired.
