Freddie Mercury Quotes
What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.
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When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.
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I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.'
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Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.
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I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
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It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.
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Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.
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While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
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What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.
