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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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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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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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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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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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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When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.
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Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.
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I have these long nails, but I literally do nothing to them! The thought of filing my nails drives me insane.
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If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you're going to work very hard to go nowhere.
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You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
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Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.
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I'm not worried about a title. It's just go and have fun.
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For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.
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It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.
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There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.
