Clarence Clemons (The Big Man) Quotes
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
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Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
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A novel, or indeed any work of art, is not intended to be a literal transcription from Nature. … Life is a series of false values. There it is always the little things that are greatest. Art attempts to remedy this. It may be defined as an expurgated edition of Nature.
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The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to. It is thus, like poetry and religion, a device for gladdening the heart with what is palpably not true.
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A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact and art is not made in a vacuum.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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With the man in the woman, and the woman in the man. In the blood of Eden lie the woman and the man.
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The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.
