Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes
I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.
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We've been probably to some degree too successful.
Karl Rove
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I'm not saying that in order to be a great jazz musician you have to be a great classical pianist first. But I am saying that it makes things easier when you can get around the instrument, and you have some idea of how to approach the various hurdles.
Aaron Diehl
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I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
Earl Weaver
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
Patrick Swayze
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A lot of shows fly under the radar for the first couple seasons and then become successful. It doesn't necessarily have any bearing on the success of the show or how much the network is behind it.
Katee Sackhoff
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I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.
Kate Mulgrew
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
Van Wyck Brooks
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I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
Park Chan-wook
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Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.
Larry Wilmore
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Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
Zig Ziglar
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First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.
Barry Manilow
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It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.
Tanya Tucker
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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
Barbara Tuchman
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My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.
Taryn Manning Boomkat
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Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Napoleon Hill
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God knows, I haven't always been successful.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
Harold Bloom
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I think that if you ask what's made us successful, it's because we've been fortunate enough to identify, in a number of cases, great people early. Then we throw all the resources behind them and are aligned with them.
Dan Levitan
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We don't mind working hard to be successful. We don't mind working to be at our best.
Eli Manning
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I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women of my own generation who were successful, intelligent, coming to power and suddenly in the public arena. I started to think about what they are allowed and what they are not allowed.
Wendy Wasserstein
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Im a hip-hop guy, and the first time I heard Eminem was in 96. He was on a record with Shabban Siddiq. I was like, Who is this guy? Hes dope! First album came out: awesome. Second album came out: awesome. Third album, I was like, Eh. He started to get really successful. He wasnt mine anymore.
Russell Peters
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This high-end, novelistic form of TV, you know, is just peppered with despicable people who do marvelous things and marvelous people who do despicable things.
Damian Lewis
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I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.
Richard Lewis Springthorpe