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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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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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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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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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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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a little bit of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us.
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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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.
