Jeff Lynne Quotes
It's a livin' thing. It's a terrible thing to lose. It's a given thing. What a terrible thing to lose.
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We strivin' for perfection.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.
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There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
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A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.
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I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.
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My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.
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If I'm brave, 99% of it comes from my mother.
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My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
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I like a little bit of punk mixed with a little bit of feminine.
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Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get tough. In a world where white working class folks are going to church less and less, they're losing that when they might really need it.
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They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.
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History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.
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Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.
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Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I'm inside my memories the same way I'm inside my everyday life.
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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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Remember this: Nothing is as simple as a storm. Ask anyone. They will tell you—those who know about storms—to get out of its path. If you can. If you have time. They will tell you nothing can stop a storm. Save yourself. Run. But there is no running. Laugh at yourself for thinking of escape. Remember this: Nothing can destroy a storm except itself. It must hurt and blow and wail till it dies. You will not be alive to clean up the debris. All the light will be gone.
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YouTube was really good for building a kind of core, loyal fanbase. I didn't want to be a YouTube artist as such. I mean, there are people who are able to release albums and live off YouTube, but I felt - and not in an arrogant way - that I could be commercial and credible if I really put my mind to it.
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It's a livin' thing. It's a terrible thing to lose. It's a given thing. What a terrible thing to lose.
