"The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you."

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Source : "Mike Oldfield Interview for the Re-release of Tubular Bells". Interview with David Cheal, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 10, 2009.

Mike Oldfield

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“Pelosi's problem is her spine doesn't reach her brain.”
“When I save, I lay something aside for future need. If I sense God's leading, I will give it away to meet greater needs. When I hoard, I'm unwilling to part with what I've saved to meet others' needs, because my possible future needs outweigh their actual present needs. I fail to love my neighbor as myself.”
“Much else than liberalization has happened in the nineties (in India)”
“It's funny when I hear people complain - particularly about the most fabulous parts of being a designer, like when you're getting ready to work on a show. I don't even know that I'm tired. I could stay up for six days straight! No drugs, no coffee, no nothing. I'm just so excited.”
“It was a blessing and also a curse of handwritten letters that unlike email you couldnâ€™t obsessively reread what youâ€™d written after youâ€™d sent it. You couldnâ€™t attempt to un-send it. Once youâ€™d sent it it was gone. It was an object that no longer belonged to you but belonged to your recipient to do with what he would. You tended to remember the feeling of what youâ€™d said more than the words. You gave to object away and left yourself with the memory. That was what it was to give.”
“I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.”
“I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman.”
“A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.”

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