Neil Diamond Quotes
It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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You have some people that's weak, and you have some people that's strong. I consider myself a very strong person.
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Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.
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Films are my life; I don't think there is anything that I would not do for the sake of the movie.
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The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.
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My mom and both of my grandmothers have always been into fashion, so it's been around us our whole lives.
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It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.
