Marie Helvin Quotes

I was addicted to 'The Monkees' TV programme - not so much because of the music but because of the commercials in between. The programme was sponsored by Yardley, and in the commercial breaks, there would be these English girls on roller skates, wearing hot pants, and I just thought, 'God! How neat!'

Marie Helvin

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• When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.

  

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• Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

  

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• There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

  

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• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

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• A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.

  

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• This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.

  

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• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

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• Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

  

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• I don't believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to have seen one because then I could believe in God. If I can see it, feel it and taste it, then I believe in it.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • God
  • Believe
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• The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.

  

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  • God
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• God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • People
  • God
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• Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

  

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• I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.

  

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  • People
  • Music
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• We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

  

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• I love fashion. I like dressing how I feel, and my music shows how I feel - they go hand in hand. My performance style is pretty much the same as my everyday style.

  

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• When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what you're talking about. Thank God I was ready for it.

  

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• Hollywood does tend to portray CIA officers as totally the honey trap. Looks matter as they do in any profession. But the most important thing for me when I was working was blending into my environment.

  

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• Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state.

  

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• As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

  

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  • Woman
  • Daughter
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• You don't need my autograph. If you needed it, I'd give it to you.

  

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• There are very few things that 13 million people tune in to witness, so television is a really relevant and powerful thing.

  

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  • People
  • Powerful

• I was addicted to 'The Monkees' TV programme - not so much because of the music but because of the commercials in between. The programme was sponsored by Yardley, and in the commercial breaks, there would be these English girls on roller skates, wearing hot pants, and I just thought, 'God! How neat!'

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Music
  • God
  • English