Don McLean Quotes
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
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If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.
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I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
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What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.
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Tasmania needs a watchdog, not a lap dog.
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The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
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I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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You get to a point in life where you have to enjoy what you do when you come in every day.
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But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.
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Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
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I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
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Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.
