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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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool.
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Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.
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It's always 'busy' with four children; it's chaos.
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Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.
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My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.
