Stanley Robert Vinton (Bobby Vinton) Quotes
I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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We are fighting abortion through adoption.
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My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.
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And then, looking back at my first Olympics, and when the pressure was on, in '94 and '98, and looking back and going, wow. I sensed and felt what Brian had gone through.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.
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I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.
