"The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage."

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Source : "Neil Diamond Cuts Up". Interview with Richard Natale, articles.latimes.com. February 10, 2001.

Neil Diamond

#Insecure Quotes #Keys Quotes #Shy Quotes

“You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.”
“and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.”
“â€¦there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creatureâ€¦And yet she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being.”
“Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.”
“Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society.”

Source : Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly (2008). “Nations and Nationalism”, p.110, Cornell University Press
“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of.”
“In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!"”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Around 80 per cent of my money goes to charity.”

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