Ringo Starr Quotes
I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I’m an emotional human being. I’m very sensitive and it took me till I was forty-eight to realize that was the problem!
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
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When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.
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I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.
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Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
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All the embroidery is made in my father's workshop in India... and all the cutting and sewing is done in my studio.
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Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
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I've gotten rejected hundreds of times.
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It's like any other job: there's a method to it and it's really important to get that down. I'm still working on it, I got a lot to learn. It's one thing to make records but it's a whole 'nother capacity to be a star - whatever that is.
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Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
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A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I’m an emotional human being. I’m very sensitive and it took me till I was forty-eight to realize that was the problem!
