Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes
If you want something you just have to see it and believe in it and not take no for an answer.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
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Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.
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I never have written a movie, but there are some bad movies out there. I can make one. I definitely want to get into that because that's how you, at my level, would get a lead in a movie - by writing a low budget thing for myself. So I gotta get to it.
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I think the bottom line for Oregonians is that cleaner fuels mean cleaner air, and we need that, and we want that.
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The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.
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I do believe that there are creative chakras or different sorts of energy centers.
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I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can play when I'm a crazy old lady.
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People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
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I was never a natural. I got there in the end because I did believe that if you work hard enough, then you can achieve a lot.
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Legacy does matter to me, and I want to leave a good one in MMA.
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One of the reasons I've been able to be productive is that I want to do everything.
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I don't want to be on 'Dancing With the Stars' anytime soon.
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I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!
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This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, 'This is the way the world works.' It's enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful.
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Do those clowns really believe what they teach?
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Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God. Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of God. Beloved are Israel, for unto them was given the desirable Torah
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Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly
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Rumours are a part and parcel of being an actor, and I am okay with that.
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If you want something you just have to see it and believe in it and not take no for an answer.
