Chris Squire Quotes
Persistence is a pretty important part of making it in this business, which, in retrospect, is the easy part. Maintaining a profile is the difficult part of the job. Somehow or another, I muddled through that system and somehow am around to still enjoy playing for people.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.
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I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.
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About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.
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Persistence is a pretty important part of making it in this business, which, in retrospect, is the easy part. Maintaining a profile is the difficult part of the job. Somehow or another, I muddled through that system and somehow am around to still enjoy playing for people.
