Elvin Bishop Quotes
Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
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Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'
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The circus leaves a sweet memory.
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Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
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We are what we believe we are.
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I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
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The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the episode is over, to seek out a community of people to express your own thoughts about it, understand what they thought about it and form an opinion - that's the bread and butter of the show.
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So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns!
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My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
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I grew up in the Ukraine and then I went to Paris in 1996. I went there because there was a modeling agency that invited me there to work so I thought, 'Sure.'
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Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
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I believe in people, especially suffering people.
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I always show up to the office sweaty! I'll come in between workouts in a tennis skirt drenched in sweat. The only time that I actually look presentable is at meetings.
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My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts – some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.
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My memoir is being published by Beaufort Books and will be available fall of 2015. It's about my unusual life as a child actor and how I made the unpopular choice to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.
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For youngsters to see just modern or ballet or hip-hop is wrong. I want them to see a rich variety.
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I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'
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Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.
