Alvin Lee Quotes
That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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I think anytime that somebody that works for the government lies, yes, they should be removed.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.
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We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insurance rates. Predictability, predictability, predictability. What's the path to least risk? What's the greater chance of getting some return on this asset?
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I'm a control freak, even though I can be scatterbrained off stage. The only way I can have fun is if I know where everything is.
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Animated editorial cartoons are completely different from static editorial cartoons.
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That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.
