Rik Mayall Quotes
When I was young, I saw some of my heroes doing it on the telly. We're talking about Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Arthur Lowe, Ian McKellan, Kenneth Williams. These were all guys telling stories to me.
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One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did.
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I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
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As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.
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The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.
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We used to exchange leotards with gymnasts from other countries. I don't remember who I got my most prized leotard from, but it was one with a lot of stars on it.
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To be successful, you have to be willing to be successful. You have to believe in the law of attraction - that you create your own life.
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We are all trying to achieve our dreams.
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Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.
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Just don't hold back. Don't be afraid to make mistakes and stuff.
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Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.
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That's what metal means to me, feeling that feeling when you hear something that totally turns you on.
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I've got friends in bands who seem like they're always on tour, even still. It may be in some people's blood. I'm sure some bands do it just to earn a living or for the experience.
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Amy Winehouse: Did she invent white soul? Wearing a beehive? No. But she did something brand new and fresh, altogether as a package, and you see who's in her wake, from the Duffys to the Lana Del Reys. Adele selling 20 million records? That would not have happened if Amy Winehouse was alive.
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Unless you're God, you are never too "big" to be a fan.
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It takes approximately forty years for innovative thought to be incorporated into mainstream thought. I expect and hope that orthomolecular medicine, within the next five to ten years, will cease to be a specialty in medicine and that all physicians will be using nurtition as an essential tool in treating disease.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.
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When I was young, I saw some of my heroes doing it on the telly. We're talking about Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Arthur Lowe, Ian McKellan, Kenneth Williams. These were all guys telling stories to me.
