Len Goodman Quotes
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
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I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.
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You are just your intelligence.
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'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.
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The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
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As long as it says Metallica on the record it's Metallica.
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It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
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It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.
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Eventually, Nixon ran a very centrist presidency, not a Goldwater conservative presidency.
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The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.
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There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
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I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.
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Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books, I answer email, I write a little bit.
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Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.
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I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.
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You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.
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There is no such thing as a German, French, or Anglo-American Expressionism! There are only young people trying to find their bearings in the world.
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I think visual literacy and media literacy is not without value, but I think plain old-fashioned text literacy and mathematical literacy are much more powerful and flexible ways to organize your mind.
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I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
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From the age of 12, I had an understanding that singing was something I loved to do more than anything, and I did say to myself, 'Why not?' But there were definitely some doubts along the way.
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I haven't danced since 1973; I'm too old.
