Tim Rice-Oxley Quotes
Lennon was such a great writer and exactingly honest. That was the thing that was defining about his songwriting and is weirdly absent from so much songwriting today, and I don't understand why.
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I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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America is huge.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
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As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.
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I love the French horn.
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It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
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I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.
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An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm.
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I love being on the road, I love playing.
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You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.
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I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.
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One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up.
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I pull back, gasping for breath. Reeling. His breath is ragged, and I place my hands on his cheeks to steady him. "Is this okay?" I whisper. "Are you okay?" His reply is anguished. Honest. "I love you."
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Lennon was such a great writer and exactingly honest. That was the thing that was defining about his songwriting and is weirdly absent from so much songwriting today, and I don't understand why.
