Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes
Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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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.
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When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
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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.
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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.
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If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.
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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.
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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.
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Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
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Wit is cultured insolence.
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A dream job is to walk right past hair and makeup.
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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.
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At the end of the day, you entertain for few hours, but people remember a good human being for a longer time.
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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.
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I wanted to become an actor so I didn't have to put on a suit and sell insurance.
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I knew exactly what I wanted to do since I could remember. As a kid, if my friends came round after school for dinner, I'd put on shows; I'd write plays and charge the parents £1.50 for a ticket for sweetie money.
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When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the fore again. It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.
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I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.
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I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!
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The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.
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Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.
