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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I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process.
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And let us dispose of a common misconception. The complete transmutation of even one animal species into a different species has never been directly observed either in the laboratory or in the field.
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The sources and research I use for my inspiration aren't your typical sci-fi subjects, but it's really driven by obsession and personal anxiety more than trying to take up the sword and do what's right.
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Obviously there are not too many people who get a chance to play in the Olympics in their hometown. That would be something special, but going into the summer you have to be realistic with yourself, and health-wise and motivation-wise you have to be willing to do what it takes.
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I can go to my premiere at the Chinese Theatre, and everyone will know me, and everyone will cater to me. And then I'll go to an audition and get rejected left, right and centre. They don't watch my videos, and they don't really know who I am. It is like starting from scratch when it comes to traditional Hollywood.
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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.
