Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes
They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.
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It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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There's no regrets for me.
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
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Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.
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I get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.
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I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.
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I can understand better than most the contradiction between the idealistic civilisation and religious morals of Europe and what they did with the slaves, because the root of the evil is only two generations away from me. Maybe this has fed my need to fight against the abuses of modern civilisation.
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What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.
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Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.
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I'm kind of goofy, and I need someone who has that, too. I'm looking for the inner freak in a guy.
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As a producer, when you get to work with a filmmaker who is joyful about making films, you want to do it again and again.
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We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow.
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People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.
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The marketing department uses many advanced techniques to match products and buyers in a way that mximizes profits. For example, they give away keychains.
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All the carbon copies, the stuff that the industry puts together, it's not selling if you pay attention and look at the charts. The stuff that they put together, these hits that just go out, it doesn't sell. It doesn't have a core fan base of fans that dedicatedly watch their life. It's just a song, another song, another hit song, a one-hit wonder. It doesn't sell. It doesn't last.
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The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers - the financial crisis has proven this.
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I'm just really old [in Doctor Strange]. Just really, really old. There is I suppose a sort of theme tune which I'm really interested in.
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They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.
