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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Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
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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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You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible.
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I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.
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I live a life where I have a huge support system, and I've been very lucky.
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The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
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The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.
