Ritchie Blackmore Quotes
One of the reasons I took up the guitar was I didn't want to speak to anybody. I really felt uncomfortable speaking to people, so I took the guitar up so I could hide behind it. I'm not comfortable explaining things, because my brain doesn't work that way.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.
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I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
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Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.
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I think the hardest thing to do in a relationship is something for yourself.
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I started doing stand-up in college.
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There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.
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Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
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Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.
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Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.
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Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.
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I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life.
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It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.
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Foreigners will eventually own so much of America that there will be nothing left to trade.
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This means more to me than any Grammy I could ever win ... It will take a village and an army, [some] countries and continents to make bullying a hate crime.
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One of the reasons I took up the guitar was I didn't want to speak to anybody. I really felt uncomfortable speaking to people, so I took the guitar up so I could hide behind it. I'm not comfortable explaining things, because my brain doesn't work that way.
