Neil Young Quotes
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
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The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.
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One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.
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Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.
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There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
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Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.
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I've been sent lots of lovely gifts - everything from candy and peanut butter to hand-made quilts, pictures, and clothing. I was once sent a crate of avocados. Fortunately, I love them.
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It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.
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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
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I owe a lot to my time on 'House of Cards' because, up until I booked that show, I had been working consistently for 12 years, but I wasn't working on anything that mattered in the way 'House of Cards' did to its audience, to casting directors, to directors and producers. The show hit this sweet spot.
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I guess whenever I’m in the paper, it’s dealing with bridges falling apart, budget problems, pension crises – and saying we have to tackle these problems.
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Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.
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England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.
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Though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go away.
