Neil Peart Quotes
Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
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There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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It's not that easy to find someone I can relate too. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.
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The crowd sometimes plays a tremendous role to give you wings and carry you to victory.
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It's easy for me to say, "Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid."
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The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.
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I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
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Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.