Neil Peart Quotes
Features distorted in the flickering lightFaces are twisted and grotesqueSilent and stern in the sweltering nightThe mob moves like demons possessedQuiet in conscience, calm in their rightConfident their ways are best - Witch Hunt (Part III of 'Fear') (1981)
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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Good material is good material.
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I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.
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There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
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If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
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I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.
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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
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What I think is wonderful is that women are not just avengers or victims in films. They are people. They are characters. It's so refreshing. They're playing different kinds of characters, and they aren't being typecast.
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I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.
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Jeremih has been my favorite artist to collab with.
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I like to just make things... If I have the TV on, I'm not just going to sit there. I want to do something with my hands; I've always got a project. Or I get a small group of people over, and I say, 'Let's make these things today.'
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.
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I began the ups and downs of my career as a university student, a member of the middle class, a doctor who shared the same horizons, the same youthful aspirations you have. In the course of the struggle, however, I changed and became convinced of the imperative need for revolution, and of the great justice of the people's cause.
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Features distorted in the flickering lightFaces are twisted and grotesqueSilent and stern in the sweltering nightThe mob moves like demons possessedQuiet in conscience, calm in their rightConfident their ways are best - Witch Hunt (Part III of 'Fear') (1981)
