Neil Peart Quotes
The middle aged madonnacalls her neighbor on the phone.Day by day, the seasons passand leave her life alone.But she'll go walking out that dooron some bright afternoonto go and paint big citiesfrom a lonely attic room. - Middletown Dreams (1985)
Quotes to Explore
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
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When I was on The View, Barbara Walters was asking me about the blood and stuff, and I said, 'Well, you know, that's a staple of Japanese cinema.' And then she came back, 'But this is America.' And I go, 'I don't make movies for America. I make movies for planet Earth.'
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Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.
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I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.
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The middle aged madonnacalls her neighbor on the phone.Day by day, the seasons passand leave her life alone.But she'll go walking out that dooron some bright afternoonto go and paint big citiesfrom a lonely attic room. - Middletown Dreams (1985)
