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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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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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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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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I really don't see little girls growing up and thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to morph myself so I look like Barbie.'
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It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.
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The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.
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The 'Star Wars' films are known for their exotic aliens, sophisticated robots, sleek technology, and planet-sized battle stations.
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The Rock: And I quote: You know your damn role and Shut Your Damn Mouth!
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There will always be rock stars, but I don't know how much depth and longevity they'll have.
