C. T. Vivian Quotes

If you've given the greatest effort that you can expect of yourself, you always get what you deserve.

Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel.

Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you… You are made by the struggles you choose.

I don't want to be a star - most of the ones I know are too unhappy.

At one point, Lucille's agent wanted to have me fired, telling her that my eyes were bigger than hers. When I head this, I told her that if I had her looks and talent, I'd keep me and fire the agent!

When I die, there will be people who send flowers to Ethel Mertz.

A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.

How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre, food court or restaurant?

I loathed William Frawley and the feeling was mutual. Whenever I received a new script, I raced through it, praying that there wouldn’t be a scene where we had to be in bed together.

And things are never okay. It does get better I guess, in that you grow to love yourself if you're lucky. But it doesn't get better because life is hard, and people aren't always nice.

Papa's love did indeed have wondrous properties: it not only compensated for her boredom and anxiety, it was the cause of her boredom and anxiety.

I used to wanna change the world. Now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity.

That's the hardest thing to do-to stay with a sentence until it has said what it should say, and then to know when that has been accomplished.

If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life.

If I had all the money I've spent on drink — I'd spend it on drink.

Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone had to squeeze the slave out of myself, drop by drop.

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing.

Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.

I've never met a man I didn't mutilate.

Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas.

I don't know what I want, but I want it NOW!

The older I grow, the more I realize how unfit we are for relationships. We are all such antagonists. It's part of the human condition to be deeply unfaithful to constancy. I do believe that.

The one-handed palmer can always reach higher, they say. They may be right, but the result is that nearly every line-out is like a tropical island - all waving palms.

Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.

If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!

Then, early, early, early in the morning-just as in countless Disney films-I heard a rooster crow. But guess what? They don't do it just once.

Fear is the root of all courage.

I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.

Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.

Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations in the physical world rather than the psychological one.

I like my guitars to be kinda worn. I don't like it when they're all shiny.

Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.

The only thing I can really trust is my own self-indulgence.

Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?

Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!

There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon.

You are the instrument of your own illumination.

Keep all your balls in the air.

If you don't like vampire games, don't play

The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money.

If you see something you don't understand, smash it.

The big opportunity - and where the most disruption is - is in local media.

I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.

Social media is the greatest boon to journalism since the printing press.

What you feel when you're writing is the relief of thinking: if you write the sentence correctly, you're clarifying. If you write the right sentence, nothing feels as good.

I want to inspire people with my work, whether I'll be dancing, acting, on the big screen, or in the production room.

I still have people saying to me, 'Oh, you're still together?' They don't realize Leppard's been around this whole time, because people just don't get to hear us.