Roger Glover Quotes
You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
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I love a good comedy, but the slapstick sitcom belly-laugh sort of comedy - the multicam thing - is not really where my interests lie. I'm very interested in single-cam, in intimate portraits. I like it when comedies have a little bit of realism and a little bit of darkness to them. It makes them more palatable and more relatable and grounded.
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There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.
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To be completely honest, it's shocking to me that I keep getting the villain roles! I do not see myself as the villain and I know, growing up, I was the opposite of a villain. I would never try to be a villain to anyone - but maybe other people I grew up with feel differently about that.
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The power of the print reviewer is one of those urban myths. There have always been shows that slipped under the critical radar to become popular successes: 'Tobacco Road', 'Abie's Irish Rose' and our old friend 'Spider-Man', which got the worst reviews in theatre history and is still apparently going strong.
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I actually came out the year that AIDS hit the front pages. So there was this mixed feeling about it - excitement that life's finally begun, but it was completely tied up with mortality and danger and politics.
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If I laugh a couple of times a day, I'm doing good. People think it's their God-given right to be happy, and it's just not. It's something you've got to work at. I like to paint the human condition, and the human condition is not smiles and happy people.
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There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will be able to write clearly, no key that unlocks the door, no inflexible rules by which the young writer may steer his course. He will often find himself steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.
