Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.
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I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
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I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.
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Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.
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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
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Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
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Republicans want to use Obamacare in the 2014 elections against Democrats who voted for it. They want to see it fail, even at the expense of people's health.
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There's enough dismemberment going on in the world without writing music about it.
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You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.
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My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was 'Just William.' It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel.
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Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.
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And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.
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I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.
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I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.
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I think I spent more time on the mellotron than on any other instrument in the studio, and it got to the point where I was like, "Well, you can't write an entire album on this instrument." But maybe I would!
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I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
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You don't find a style. A style finds you...
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I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
