Rod Stewart Quotes
My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
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Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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Creatively, I've always wanted to be different as it relates to my craft, and reggae, being a part of my culture, makes up a percentage of that uniqueness. The only definition I can think of to describe my style is 'OMI.'
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I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
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I am an Indian, so I do yoga.
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I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.
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I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.
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'Twin Peaks' has got interesting characters. They are all different from anything anyone has ever seen before. You've had bad people before. But everyone's got little quirks, and everyone's interesting.
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My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
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That's the ideal. Not to get stuck in a rut playing the same role.
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There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.
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I don't think it will kick in until we have to come to practice and we're not playing in the gold medal game.
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.
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My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.
