Neil Sedaka Quotes
I started out just as Elvis was going into the army, Jerry Lee Lewis married his 14-year-old cousin, and Little Richard became a priest.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
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My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.
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I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It's the risk.
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A lot of films come out before they're finished.
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I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going.
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It's always about the music, never about anything else.
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I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
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I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.
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I really didn't even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on the road. I was kind of thrown in the deep end. But that wasn't a bad thing when I look back at it.
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I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
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Completely overwhelmed, it is huge project to be working on 'Singh Is Bliing.' How everyone is enjoying the film is everything to me. Definitely, it is the biggest milestone of my career.
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I started out just as Elvis was going into the army, Jerry Lee Lewis married his 14-year-old cousin, and Little Richard became a priest.
