Georgie Fame Quotes
My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.
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The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
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I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.
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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
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If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
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One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual place that I'm writing about. No matter how scrupulously maintained a historic house or battlefield may be, it is nothing like it was in the long-ago past.
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It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.
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When you're an actor, you do get involved with your characters - your emotional life is tied up with theirs, and so is your physical life.
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I had never really thought of myself as a baby person, but it's just a really profound connection.
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I'm not only a fan of Apple products, I have stock in the company. I think Steve Jobs has started one of the greatest corporations in the world.
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I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do become commonplace, then that uncanny effect will go away.
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There is nothing more important than staying alert, reading your opponent, that counts for both inside and outside the ring.
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He weren't no saint-but at jedgment I'd run my chance with Jim.'Longside of some pious gentlemen That wouldn't shook hands with him.He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing- And went for it thar and then;And Christ ain't a-going to be too hard On a man that died for men.
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Oprah Winfrey is such an inspiring person.
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The industry is a difficult place to be in. It is not at all rosy. There are judgements being made. I don't like bad publicity, but that is part and parcel of it. However, I am grateful for whatever I have got from the industry.
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You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.
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My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.
