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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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear 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 used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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There is an interesting point about the price of success: It must always be paid in full-and in advance. Everyone wants to be successful. Everyone wants to be healthy, happy, thin, and rich. But most people are not willing to pay the price.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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On a film set, everything's done for you. You get to a stage where you can't even remember the last time you made yourself a sandwich. The crazy thing is that, as actors, we're trying to portray the human condition, but we're often not living in reality.
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I think the past need not be the dead past. If we get it right, with new books, the past can be a beacon for the future.
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
