Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

Richard Lewis Springthorpe

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• The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Movie
  • You
  • Cutting

• The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Hand
  • Cutting
  • Down

• I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Golf
  • Basketball
  • Tennis

• I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Good
  • Language
  • Cutting

• I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Player
  • Choice
  • Tennis

• Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Good
  • Song
  • Guitar

• A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • High
  • Looks
  • Someone

• I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Played

• Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Up
  • Done
  • Future

• And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Me
  • Guitar
  • Kid

• There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • May
  • Guitar
  • Feedback

• I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Love
  • Play
  • Summer

• When I first got signed, I bought a vintage guitar from the 1930s for £1000. I've bought a £400 SLR camera, too, which was quite extravagant.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Guitar
  • Camera
  • Vintage

• Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Important
  • End

• I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Heart

• It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'

  

  Lily James
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hair

• Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

  

  Bradley Whitford
  • Tennis

• I like cutting through complexity and trying to get to the kernel of an idea.

  

  Belinda Johnson
  • Trying
  • Cutting

• When you are known as this cutting-edge composer all the time... it's no longer cutting-edge.

  

  Du Yun
  • Time
  • Cutting

• And all those who look down on me I'm tearing down your balcony.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Funny
  • Looks
  • Balconies

• I always thought of it like, 'What can my body do for me?' and not, 'How do I look?'

  

  Venus Williams
  • Me
  • Like
  • Always

• For me, Wimbledon is such a special tournament. I feel at home when I play there, and the grass is perfect.

  

  Heather Watson
  • Grass
  • Wimbledon
  • Special tournament

• I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Looks
  • Cutting
  • Tennis