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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• So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

  

  Vikram Seth
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  • Language
  • Novels

• There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Music
  • Always
  • Star

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

  

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

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • God
  • Man
  • Relationship

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

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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  • Music
  • Crazy

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

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Music
  • Story

• 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.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • God
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• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Music
  • Something

• 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
  • Wish

• 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.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Inspiration
  • Voice

• 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
  • Rest

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

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Change
  • Environment

• 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.

  

  Maluma
  • People
  • Music
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Style

• We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Political
  • Philosophy
  • Tools

• Latinos finally have a genre of music that represents them, and they're supporting reggaeton in such huge numbers that people can't help but notice there's a revolution going on.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Music
  • Help

• I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Opportunity
  • Singing

• Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.

  

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  • Music
  • Think
  • Berlin

• My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures I drew in my notebook. She said I should try writing children's books, and so I did.

  

  Dav Pilkey
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Children

• 'Sometimes,' said General Morpurgo, taking her hand, 'dreams are all that separate us from the machines.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Hand

• You can choose a direction that will take you into something that isn't going to take you where you want to go, or you can choose another direction which is down the right pathway.

  

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• My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.

  

  Boz Scaggs The Steve Miller Band
  • Music
  • Parents

• 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