David Longdon Quotes
The awards are voted for by progressive rock fans, so it gives us an indication of where we stand within our genre. We are very lucky that some people like our music enough to want to vote for it. We are especially delighted that our music makes a strong connection with some people.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.
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My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream.
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In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).
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I love to write, to sing, to make music. Not to act: I am horrible.
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Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.
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O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.
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I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally I'll write one myself if I can summon up the energy.
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It isn't about the words you say. It's about the energetic message you send.
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The awards are voted for by progressive rock fans, so it gives us an indication of where we stand within our genre. We are very lucky that some people like our music enough to want to vote for it. We are especially delighted that our music makes a strong connection with some people.
