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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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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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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Thinking through how you look to your enemies is helpful. That doesn't mean that your ideology is wrong and theirs is right, but maybe you have to recognise that they have one - and that it may be logically coherent. Which may be uncomfortable.
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My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
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If you're walking with somebody, you're heading in the same direction, and the spatial dance you're doing is a little more cooperative.
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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.
