Neil Peart Quotes
All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage
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My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her instinct.
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Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
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I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs that are quite personal, I always feel it's a bit accusing if I stare in someone's face when I singing quite a personal lyric.
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,' as the second installment sees Mare, Cal and company traveling throughout their country, and that's always fun for me.
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Every actor has to move in a Terrence Malick film - that's the requirement. If you stop, he'll tell you, 'No, no, keep moving.' You can't be static. It's a choreography.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.
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All of my high school issues are resolved!
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I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
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I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.
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I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.
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I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
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Do not let the word 'tripe' deter you. Let its soothing charms win you over, and enjoy it as do those who always have!
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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Nothing irritates me more than going to see an artist and paying all this money and then have them rant about very specific political opinions.
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I have still not decided who will start yet. We will have a look at how players react in training tomorrow and then I'll have a better idea.
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Music is always my great escape... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.
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Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.
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So I think to over-celebrate a scrappy, deflected winner at Kilmarnock in such a fashion is embarrassing.
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All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage
