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

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Matter

• 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
  • Friends

• I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Alone
  • 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

• It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
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• There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.

  

  Sam Smith
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  • Trying
  • Way

• My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• I knew his life deserved a chance/But everybody told me to be smart/Look at your career they said/'Lauren, baby use your head'/But instead I chose to use my heart.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Career

• Art and literature should help us to get out of our mental cocoons.

  

  Elif Safak
  • Art
  • Help
  • Literature

• My dad was always taking photos of us at home, and even on set - he'd bring us along and stick us in the photos in the background. It was almost the beginning of acting for me, like, 'Hey, you go over there and play basketball in the background, and don't even think about the camera.'

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Beginning

• Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.

  

  Anthony Doerr

• We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Music
  • Important

• 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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