Lewis Capaldi Quotes

Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.

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• I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Great
  • Done
  • Movies

• In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Father
  • Year

• I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Person
  • Nation
  • Pressured

• Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Dark
  • Red
  • Sweet

• Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Live
  • Can
  • Scenes

• People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • People
  • Think
  • Try

• The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Heart
  • New
  • New York

• So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • People
  • Audience
  • Twitter

• In the early 2009, a campaign plan developed by Petraeus and General McChrystal to defeat the Taliban, they required a minimum force of 40,000. President Obama rejected that recommendation and provided 25 percent less. He also decided he would pull the force out in 12 to 15 months.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Plan
  • Defeat
  • Early

• Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Pretty
  • Woman
  • Old

• The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • History
  • Past
  • Change

• There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Trying
  • You
  • Aesthetic

• Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Lies
  • Difference
  • Wit

• I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Character
  • Think
  • Angry

• I always grew up with, 'Question authority.'

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Question
  • Always

• There's not one day that goes by that I'm not listening to one of my songs or in rehearsal for one of my songs or dancing to one of my songs.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Day
  • Listening
  • One Day

• You can find love when you are famous if you are the same person you were before you were famous.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Person
  • Famous
  • Find

• A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Mind
  • May
  • Understanding

• Yes, there were piano bands and great rock pianists, from Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard to Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, and Elton John. But something about the electric guitar speaks of more than music - it epitomizes and gives voice to the rebellion, power, and sexuality of rock.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Great
  • Music
  • Power

• Brother says he's telling about you playing Doctor with that girl.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Girl
  • Brother
  • Playing

• You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Always

• McLeavy: I'm innocent. (A little unsure of himself, the beginnings of panic) Doesn't that mean anything to you?

  

  Joe Orton
  • Innocent

• Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Music
  • Goal
  • Playing