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

• Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Different
  • Free
  • News

• 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

• Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Done
  • Road

• 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

• We have all learned that addiction and mental illnesses are illnesses, and I think a lot of people overlook that it is a chemical imbalance; it's like cancer, a sickness, and people need to see it as that.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • People
  • Cancer
  • Addiction

• Will Hilt to hand yet be restored? Take me up, thy mother's sword.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Mother
  • Sword
  • Restored

• I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Book
  • House
  • Loved

• I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • You
  • Chance

• When you work with people and are friends with them also, you have more of a shorthand. I think people relax more and it opens the door to being less precious and trying things that, when you're shooting and writing, it becomes much more collaborative - therefore funny, hopefully.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

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

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Years