Alex Lifeson Quotes
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.
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I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
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I sing around the house, in the shower.
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There's been a huge history of cisgender success on the back of trans stories, which is something I'm deeply aware of. My take on it, I suppose, was that I do think actors should be able to play anything.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
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Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
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I said publicly last year that I wanted 2012 to be a great season, not just a good season. We certainly had a very good season and perhaps exceeded a few expectations. But Broncos fans, you and I know what a great season looks like.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
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In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.
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I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.
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Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.
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So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.
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I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.
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I like to play what I call a-motional golf. Emotion doesn't grab me that much.
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People have always been recording what's going on around them in one form or another.
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Exercise is like meditation for me, and I'm giving myself that time... I can't live without it now.
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I like to fish. I collect pocketknives. I inherited a nice collection from my father and grandfather.
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There's a scene in the 1990 film Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael in my bedroom where I start eating Almond Roca. I was so young. It was before I knew the tricks of moviemaking, and I didn't know you shoot a lot of different angles. I gobbled them and didn't realize I had to keep doing it. So I had to eat 64 Almond Roca that day. I got so sick. In the beginning you're like, 'Ooh, that looks good.' But hours later, no.
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I really consider myself more of a rhythm guitarist than a soloist.
