Neil Peart Quotes
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Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.
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Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.
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I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.
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I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
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The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.
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Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.
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My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.
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As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
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All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.
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So vast is the shadow cast by the MGM production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' so indelible are its characterizations, so perfect its music, and so assured is its cinematic immortality, that most people think of it as 'The Original.' In fact, it isn't.
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And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
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The future of the world's film industry is in China because we have 1.3 billion people.
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It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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I have swum against the stream all my life. It's not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet.
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I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work.
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South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn't find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K.
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Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.
