Phil Collins Quotes
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I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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I have never used steroids. Period.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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I like most any place if I have Internet access.
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One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.
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Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.
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I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls.
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Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
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My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibitions. I was always surrounded by art. It's their fault I've become an actress.
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Genesis fans are a religious group!
