Neil Diamond Quotes
Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it happens in a different way and I like that.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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People relate to me, and I try to make songs that make people smile.
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We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
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There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
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For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three or four big scenes or something to which I can really respond emotionally.
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'Civilians' is a term I love. It's what Elizabeth Hurley used to describe people who weren't on TV.
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The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
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One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.
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You can't just come into someone's life, make them feel special, and then leave.
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Of all the songs that I've written since I was 15 or 16, every song is different every song is special, it happens in a different way and I like that.
