Neal Schon Quotes
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If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.
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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
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You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life.
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I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.
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We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings.
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When I was 17, I had an experience that I later learned could be called a 'mystical experience.' It was almost violent. No faces, voices, nothing like that. It is like the world burst and flamed into life all around me. That is not a great image, but it is as good as I will ever do.
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You get to a point where the kind of beautiful chaos can't really fuel your creative existence any longer because it's not stable, however amazing and exciting it may be.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.
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Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
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To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.
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When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started writing music.
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...faced with a choice between an agreement that is to the advantage of the peoples of Europe and one that bolsters their own power within the EU institutions at the expense of Europe’s social economies, the Brussels establishment, and the powerful politicians behind them, will choose the latter every time.
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The Scottish Himalaya Expedition (1951) The 'Goethe couplet' referred to here is from an extremely loose translation of Faust 214-30 done by John Anster in 1835. Reference:
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Everything is pre-taped these days, but I'm a believer in, 'If you can't do it live, don't do it.'
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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
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I love fashion! I love clothes! I really like vintage clothes, so in my closet there's a lot of '50s stuff. I go to the stores and shop around.
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I wake up every morning excited. Rather than become complacent or overwhelmed, I've made a choice for life - and I can do something about it.
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I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.
