Neil Peart Quotes
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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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When you give as a family, not only are you sharing the happiness that giving brings you by watching it translate into positive change, but you are also transmitting your giving values to your children by engaging them in the giving process itself.
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.
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I'm not a team sports person type person, so I probably would have been good at tennis, because I like tennis. But my parents really didn't push me. I think if my parents would have guided me and stay committed, I could have played any sport I wanted to, but I never did.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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For filming, we have to wear a lot more makeup than we usually would. At night, I have to go home and take off all the makeup and take my hair out from my bun and just get out of the dancewear and everything.
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I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.
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I don't like hearing that I've lost weight. I like hearing that it looks like I have gained weight?!
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First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.
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A champion without his belt is like a knight without his sword. I've got to have it.
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Just because you don't have a prince, doesn't mean your not a princess.
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From my experience working with comedians, there is that competitive aspect. With actors, for instance, they don't want to look competitive even if they are, whereas comedians, I think, are openly happy to play on the idea that they all compete with each other to get the laughs. There's something about comedy, I think, that encourages that. There's this kind of schoolboy sense of wanting to top the other person that we play off of to show them competing for who's smarter or cleverer.
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A few guys with guns can spoil everything. - The Masked Rider ()
