Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel (Seal) Quotes
The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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When I was seven, I was allowed to be an extra in 'Parenthood,' which was amazing. But then I kind of got addicted to it, and my parents didn't want me to want to act. They felt that would be putting your kid in an adult world.
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Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment, refugees, the bohemians, the artists - all of those people were crammed into densely populated neighborhoods and tenements. And as people climbed up the economic ladder they moved out, which really accelerated with the "white flight" phenomenon in the '60s and '70s.
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The day I made that statement, I was tired because I had been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
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Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.
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The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.
