Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

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• After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Violence

• 'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Die
  • Nice
  • Ring

• When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Me
  • Eyes
  • Accident

• You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Family
  • Strong
  • Know

• If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

  

  Gary Busey
  • You
  • Short
  • Take

• Whatever I have done so far has led me to 'Kaabil.' It is a big opportunity for me to establish myself more commercially. It is a huge platform.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Platform

• And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Release

• And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • War
  • Want
  • Said

• As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • Sometimes
  • Feel
  • Old

• According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Father
  • Law
  • Divided

• If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • People
  • Know
  • Artist

• There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Question
  • Figure
  • Strongly

• I haven't gotten to do the leading man thing, so I would love to do that!

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Love
  • Man
  • Leading

• Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Amazing
  • Working
  • Hollywood

• 'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.

  

  David Chase
  • Bad
  • Stupid

• I used to think, 'I'm going to write.' I knew that from quite early on, but I also thought, 'Maybe I'll be an explorer or a spy,' and it all came from books.

  

  Lisa Tuttle

• There is no better way to improve wages and working conditions in our country than to support the right to unionize. Throughout our history, unions have improved the lives of millions of American families, grown the middle class, and pushed our economy forward.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Country
  • American
  • History

• Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.

  

  William Devane
  • Want
  • Stories
  • Shows

• If giving money to a politician prejudiced my ability to think and write honestly, I wouldn't do it. Fortunately, it doesn't.

  

  George Packer
  • Money
  • Giving

• I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Writing
  • Including

• I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Years