Don McLean Quotes
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.
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I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.
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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
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In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.
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I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
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I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza.
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If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
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I'm a guy of 92kg. I haven't got the physique of someone who can work back and then sprint up front again throughout a match!
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In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
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You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
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Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.
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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
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I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.
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We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!
