Alex Chilton Quotes

I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

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• I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Business
  • Nothing

• I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Way

• I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Life
  • Work
  • Rest

• I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Life
  • Love
  • Intimidates

• When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Men
  • Service

• I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Family
  • Money
  • Done

• Administrator McCarthy and the EPA will soon find out that Washington bureaucrats are becoming far too aggressive in attacking our way of life. Administrator McCarthy should be apologizing to Missourians. EPA aggression has reached an all-time high, and now it must be stopped.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Life
  • Time
  • High

• Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Couple

• My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Hero

• I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Life
  • Different
  • Always

• Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Day
  • Gift

• Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Yourself

• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Road
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• I keep seeing in the papers that I am good friends with Samantha Cameron. I've never met her in my life.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Life
  • Good
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• I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

  

  Wayne Brady
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  • Like
  • Working

• Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Real
  • Diversity

• Life is one long jubilee.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Life
  • Long
  • Jubilee

• The NAACP was not a black-run, black-originated organization. It was run by 21 white, socialist, atheist, Marxist Democrats. It was the antithesis of Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.'s community at that time, which was capitalist, Christian, very pro-life, and pro-America.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • Life
  • Time
  • America

• Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Purpose

• If you're not polarizing, you failed, in my opinion.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Opinion

• A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Music
  • Story

• We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!

  

  Don McLean
  • Up
  • Dance
  • Chance

• I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
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