Rick Derringer Quotes
I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
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I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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Most police officers are good cops and good people.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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We're not looking at banning all weapons.
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In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
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But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
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Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them.
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I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
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I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.
