Neil Peart Quotes
Wheels can take you around.Wheels can cut you down.We can go from boom to bust.From dreams to a bowl of dust.We can fall from rockets' red glare, down to 'Brother can you spare...'Another war.Another wasteland.And another lost generation - Between The Wheels (1984)
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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I just feel so flattered, because the cosplayers really make sure every detail is there. I don't think I've ever cosplayed a character before, but if I were to, I'd probably go as a Klingon from 'Star Trek.'
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It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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No two wars are identical.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.
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Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'
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I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.
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I was born in 1928, so in 1943, 1944, we had the war in Rome. There were a lot of hardships, a lack of food, many shortages. So when I worked with the Americans, the English, and the Canadians soon after the war, when I played with them, they paid me with food. That will give you an idea how widespread poverty was at that time.
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I started my career buying and owning single-family houses, and I know that's a really tough job. Toilets break. Trees fall. There are so many things that can go wrong. Land, on the other hand, is cheap to manage. It's painless, really. All you have to do is pay your taxes, and that's it.
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Wheels can take you around.Wheels can cut you down.We can go from boom to bust.From dreams to a bowl of dust.We can fall from rockets' red glare, down to 'Brother can you spare...'Another war.Another wasteland.And another lost generation - Between The Wheels (1984)
