Quote by Cat Stevens
In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be

In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didnt enable you to do that. It wasnt my style. – Cat Stevens

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In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think thats kind of natural for anyone whos just embraced Islam – or any religion – as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life Id been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood. – Cat Stevens

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Religion
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I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated. – Cat Stevens

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famous
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Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again. – Cat Stevens

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Hope
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But its a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, youre not playing yourself. – Ralph Fiennes

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Experience

Ive always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal. – Trey Anastasio

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Experience

In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be. – Alberto Moravia

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Experience

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. – Samuel Alexander

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Experience

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This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on. – Peter Ueberroth

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I think its a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. Its a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but thats not the only reason to work. You couldnt have paid me not to write. – Anne Perry

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There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality then it is a quality of the spirit. – Tom Wolfe

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