Ritchie Blackmore Quotes
Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.
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To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.
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A bill for 20 grams of Pure Gold, for one painted area of sensibilized immaterial. about 1958, text on a bill for selling 'air'
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Hell is not a subject to be avoided; it is a place to be avoided. Thinking about Hell is actually a very good idea. It's a good way to keep ourselves out of it.
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Your deliberate Chief Aim in life should be selected with deliberate care.
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I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.
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As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.
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Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.
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A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.
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I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
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A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?
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And tomorrow--who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows--it's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end to the Known? This is the new, the improbable, the unpredictable.
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Now, I'm a dad, I'm an adult. I've been solo for 25 years; I've been in other people's groups but I'm solo [in a broader sense]. I stopped comparing myself to other people's maps when I was maybe 24, really. The trajectory that I've gone on is not one that I can compare with anybody else.
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For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.
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The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.
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I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.
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Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.
