Don McLean Quotes
I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
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As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Diet cola is my absolute favorite drink in the world; I used to drink four cans a day. But to help me cut down, I've turned it into a treat. Now, instead of having dessert, I'll have a can of diet soda. Putting a limit on how often I can drink it has helped me appreciate it more.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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You can't call me a Twitter phenomenon or a YouTube one. These things are useful, but so's hard gigging. One year I did 311 shows. I did six in one night alone.
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I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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In every character that you play... I mean, I don't think I'll ever be the type of actor or performer per se who transforms, you know? Like Claire Danes transforms into Temple Grandin - I'm not gonna do that.
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I think Michael Moore is a hero.
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Kelly, there are people in Somalia who would die for a banana.
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It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
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From now on, in any place, if any nation or any group confronts the Zionist regime, we will endorse and we will help. We have no fear expressing this… The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor that must be removed, and God willing it will be.
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How that works is our first season was the year we had a threatened writers' strike, so what we did was that instead of doing 22 episodes, we did 30. We put 10 in the bank.
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Israel remains and embattled democracy in the midst of authoritarian states, and the birthplace of the kibbutz to which tens of thousands of youth from around the world have turned for a living lesson in human equality.
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I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.
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Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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So many people com einto our lives and then leave the way they came. But there are those precious few who touch our hearts so deeply we will never be the same.
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I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.
