Gary Kemp Quotes
In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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There is a moment in your story when you can pinpoint the exact time you fell in love, be it with a place or a person. I can remember both like it was yesterday.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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Not every problem is solvable, okay.
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Normally, I like to eat at home. We don't go out much. The food at home is so good.
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I act this way because that's the way I feel like acting. If people like it, fine. If they don't, that's their problem.
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People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked.
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People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
