Torquil Campbell Quotes
Getting up on stage and being able to make people feel like their lives are slightly more special than they realize is my only talent, so that's what I use. I use my talent.
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I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
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People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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I really like performing for people.
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Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.
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I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.
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I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
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All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.
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Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.
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Family are the people that can hurt you the most.
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My character in 'La Haine,' he's not bad; he's unhappy, and usually, people are like that. Most of us are angry.
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What I am very, very moved and struck by is that so many people in the world are often living a life that they hadn't planned for themselves. And they wake up one day and say, 'Hang on. Who am I? Is this really me? Is this what I really wanted?' And also, 'Can I change it? Have I got the courage to change it?'
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I think there is a lot of space for people to love who they love, and a lot of space for actors to carve a niche for themselves.
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Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.
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I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada, the guy who did the album art. I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record.
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Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.
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Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament.
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There just aren't many people in the world with balls that big and talent that awesome.
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Curious people are interesting people; I wonder why that is.
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Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
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And innovation and entrepreneurship is the opportunity and best opportunity we have to grow the economy.
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Getting up on stage and being able to make people feel like their lives are slightly more special than they realize is my only talent, so that's what I use. I use my talent.
