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Phil Collins Quotes

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.

Phil Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: January 30, 1951

Topics

Work Good Day Language Someone Down

Not every Democratic idea is a good one; not every Republican idea is a bad one.

Jim Gray

Good Bad Republican Democratic Idea

I think what we have to do is speak about the issues and speak about my record.

Joe Garcia

Speak Think Issues I Think About

If you think you can do it, you can.

John Burroughs

Motivational You Can Do It Think You

I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having actual parents who lived through the Cultural Revolution who are also interested in literature, they're also very attuned to those moments.

Jenny Zhang

Parents Revolution Think Moments You

The lion's share of what I listened to in the Eighties, what really affected me, was coming from Britain.

John Grant

Lion Me Coming Share Eighties

Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

Jeff Bridges

Music Writing Always Been Interested

When I was 17, I had my first proper girlfriend, and on Valentine's Day, I painted a canvas of her, bought her a massage, put flowers on the stairs, and ran a bath.

Tom Cullen

Valentine's Day Day Flowers Bath Her

Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, I'm a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way.

Christopher Walken

Good Home Live Effort People Calm

Political life is like a big wheel: constantly turning. At times you are up, at times down. But always, the wheel keeps moving.

Ariel Sharon

Life Moving Political You Down Big

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

Penelope Lively

Past Identity Need Where Sense Our

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

Rihanna

Hat Sneakers Dressed Go T-Shirt Out

It started off at a club called Disobey, around the corner from where I live.

Richard D. James

Live Club Corner Where Started Off