Rickey Medlocke Quotes
You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original.
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
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My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
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We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.
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The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
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The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
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With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.
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No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.
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It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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The most important thing in life is to love what you're doing, because that's the only way you'll ever be really good at it.
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You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.
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It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.
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Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned.
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YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature and YOU! WILL! ATONE!
