Mick Ralphs (Michael Geoffrey Ralphs) Quotes
Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.
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In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.
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When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.
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Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.
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Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.
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In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
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If I see an ending, I can work backward.
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When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.
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There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.
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I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.
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Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out.
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I act, but I am a mother first and wife second.
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John Kerry is busy trying to raise money right now for his campaign. It was reported today that Kerry's hoping to raise $80 million before the Democratic convention. That's a lot of money. Yeah, Kerry has two ways to raise the $80 million: soliciting Democratic donors and going through his wife's purse.
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Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.
