Al Stewart Quotes
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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You have to open up on stage.
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
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There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
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When I go to school, I'm always happy because it's a normal kid thing.
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One of the things I believe in is a sense of human nature.
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I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.
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We make two mistakes about the ancient world. One is to assume they were better than us - that, for instance, the ancient Olympics didn't involve money-making. The opposite mistake, and just as common, is to think our Olympics are much more civilised than ancient sporting competitions. Neither is true.
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I haven't had any formal training, but I guess dance comes naturally to us - people from the north. See how much we dance at weddings.
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It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
