I was around nine when a babysitter snuck 'Who's Next' onto the turntable. The parents were gone. The windows shook. The shelves were rattling. Rock & roll. That began an exploration into music that had soul, rebellion, aggression, affection.


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EDDIE REDMAYNE
I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about su...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly ch...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in ...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordi...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by rac...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfl...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own ...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, ev...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Na...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why...
EDDIE PLANK
There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to ...
EDDIE PLANK
You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
EDDIE PEREZ
At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
EDDIE PEREZ
Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.
EDDIE PEREZ
My energy level has not changed.
EDDIE PEREZ
A lapse in judgment is not a crime.
EDDIE PEREZ
Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you lo...
EDDIE PEREZ
If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the ...
EDDIE OBENG
We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
EDDIE OBENG
We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no l...
EDDIE OBENG
In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.
EDDIE OBENG
I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.
EDDIE MURRAY
And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, m...
EDDIE MURRAY
And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me...
EDDIE MURRAY
I'm now the hitting the instructor with the Cleveland Indians.
EDDIE MURRAY
I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseba...
EDDIE MURRAY
It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.
EDDIE MURRAY
Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.
EDDIE MURRAY
Baseball is a team game.
EDDIE MURRAY
No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven he...
EDDIE MURRAY
When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games.
EDDIE MURRAY
And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home...
EDDIE MURRAY
For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
EDDIE MURRAY
I learned life from some good teachers.
EDDIE MURRAY
When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned...
EDDIE MURRAY
You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
EDDIE MURRAY
Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest ...
EDDIE MURPHY
As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
EDDIE MURPHY
I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.
EDDIE MURPHY
I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have t...
EDDIE MURPHY
I had a band before I did standup - I've always done music. I got known for being funny, and tha...
EDDIE MURPHY
I love the Beatles.
EDDIE MURPHY