Alex Lifeson Quotes
I think Rush have always had this reputation, particularly to non-fans, of being an ultra-serious and cerebral group when, in fact, the reverse is true. We don't take ourselves seriously at all. Sure, we take our music seriously, but that's altogether different.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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As a 17-year-old, I remember positively dreading dance sequences. I would come to shoots, quaking with nervousness at the idea of making other artistes do retakes due to my mistakes.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
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If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'
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You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.
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I don't know what you mean by country music. I just make music the way I know how.
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The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.
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I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.
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This is a profession in which how you look dictates whether or not you get work, so a model has to be healthy.
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I think Rush have always had this reputation, particularly to non-fans, of being an ultra-serious and cerebral group when, in fact, the reverse is true. We don't take ourselves seriously at all. Sure, we take our music seriously, but that's altogether different.
