Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes
There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
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The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe.
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I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
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People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.
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Where liberty dies, evil grows.
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I'd never been around or seen a black showrunner, and in some ways you wish that it wasn't a big deal.
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A bad outfit can really get me down. If I'm wearing something really normal and boring, it's like torture.
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Religion was best understood when least talked of.
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.
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I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.
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There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.
