Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes

You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons.

Richard Lewis Springthorpe

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• Therapy
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• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
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• When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.

  

  Kate Atkinson
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• I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
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• I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise; but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Up
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• I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start, really, with Martin Luther King in Birmingham. He did the bus thing. And I don't think anything that followed would have happened if the press hadn't paid attention.

  

  Garry Winogrand
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• I don't take advances for my books.

  

  Andrew Vachss
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• I know my boundaries. I know the limits to the car.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
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• He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Words
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• I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Heart
  • Why
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• If the film isn't suspenseful, i.e. the pressure cooker situation of what's going on in the movie, if that's not part of it, if the threat of violence and the temperature isn't always going up a notch every scene or so, then the movie is going to be boring. It's not going to work.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Up
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  • Movie

• I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.

  

  Claudette Colbert
  • Business
  • Claudette Colbert

• Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • God
  • Hate
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• Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self than love of another. Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn't about what others can give you because your empty. It is about what you can give others because you're already full.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Fear
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  • Love Is

• Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions.

  

  Eamonn Coghlan
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• Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.

  

  Judy Blume
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• They didn't do this because they have facts, because they have solid proof against me. They did it because the president spoke and now they must prove that he was right and that is my great worry.

  

  Augustin Misago
  • President
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  • Proof

• The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Faith
  • Courage
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• She too had found the experience transforming. How could she not? A demon had been exorcised. Several. And just when she felt more capable of love than she had ever been, she found herself alone.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • She
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  • Alone

• You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Helping
  • Therapy
  • Heal