Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes
You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant.
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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I know that I have probably an eight- to 10-year window in this league, and if I want to be what I say I want to be, then I have to commit myself 100 percent.
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I think fans always want something new, but they want somebody who can deliver - to go out there and really entertain them and have good matches.
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Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.
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I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don't want to be moonlighting at this, like I have done with acting. Y'know, I think I've found my career at 37 years old.
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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 want to be a well-rounded, versatile performer.
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People don't want to hear about it if you're frustrated with your big career break.
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People have to do what they want to do.
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A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and I'm willing to do without until I get it.
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A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
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I was planning that whole athletic slide into Stanford rather than actually getting a 1450 on my SATs.
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The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.
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You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant.
