Neil Diamond Quotes
I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
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People come over, and we watch things like 'The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.' I have a hot tub. Everybody puts on a bathing suit and we splash around.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.
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The beating heart of your story... that's not what shows up in a trailer. The other stuff is what shows up in a trailer, because that's what gets people in to the seats, and that's how studios make their money.
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Obviously, in WWE, everyone is on top of their game.
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The tyrant nowTrusts not to men: nightly within his chamberThe watch-dog guards his couch, the only friendHe now dare trust.
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I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.
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I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.
