Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes

Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.

Richard Lewis Springthorpe

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• I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Important
  • History
  • Think

• Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Bad
  • Government
  • Rest

• I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.

  

  Walter Smith
  • People
  • Attention
  • Play

• I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.

  

  Yuna
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Beautiful

• When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • School
  • High
  • Dream

• My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, 'I could do that,' kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Serious

• You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Time
  • Growing
  • Practice

• If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Car
  • Season
  • Test

• I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Years

• I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hate

• Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Life
  • Period

• Wit is cultured insolence.

  

  Aristotle
  • Wit
  • Insolence
  • Cultured

• A dream job is to walk right past hair and makeup.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Job
  • Dream
  • Past

• As an actor, you're supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a different light. By the '90s, I wasn't really an actor anymore. I was someone who went on the road with these gigantic concerts.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Different
  • Light
  • Challenge

• At the end of the day, you entertain for few hours, but people remember a good human being for a longer time.

  

  Karan Patel
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I don't know if we're doing the optimal things that we can to try and connect different people on the planet with different points of view and not be so angry at each other.

  

  Dave McClure
  • People
  • Different
  • Angry

• I wanted to become an actor so I didn't have to put on a suit and sell insurance.

  

  Dean Winters
  • Insurance

• When I was eight, I started what could be considered my first business, performing magic shows in Mexico City.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Business
  • City
  • Magic

• There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Truth
  • Magic
  • Leaving

• Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Black

• Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Reason
  • Magic
  • Shows