Al Stewart Quotes
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I write in a small office at home.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
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If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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Technology is changing the way we interact as humans.
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My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.
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I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.
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'Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.
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Angela Bassett is a friend of mine and someone who I truly admire tremendously in terms of her work and her choices.
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I write my music.
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Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.
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I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in.
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I miss the days when girls would wear full long dresses and just stand onstage and sing. That's what I'm trying to bring back: that timeless element. I want to create music that people will be listening to in fifty years, you know?
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I was a sports kid.
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Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.
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If our hearts were truly pure, we would never have our fill of the words of your Lord
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Take care of yourself - you never know when the world will need you.
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When I auditioned for 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway, Gower Champion said, 'You've got the job!' I said, 'Mr. Champion, I can't dance.' He said, 'We'll teach you what you need to know.'
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He wasn't that good looking, he had the social skills of a wet cat and the patience of a caffeinated hummingbird
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Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.
