David Biespiel Quotes
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.
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Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
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I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.
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I never felt truly at home in Switzerland.
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There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
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History will treat me right.
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I'm a person who has always been clear about my love of music and vocal about trying to live in a way that lends itself to health.
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Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
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Obama and Clinton make an interesting contrast in brands.
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My dream evening is wearing my sweatpants, eating something delicious and watching TV with my boyfriend.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?
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American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.
