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It's every musician's dream to play in Carnegie Hall. Just think of the musical history that's taken place on that stage. It's cool to be a part of that.


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NEIL GAIMAN I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.
NEIL GAIMAN You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
NEIL GAIMAN I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody...
NEIL GAIMAN You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.
NEIL GAIMAN What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it�...
NEIL GAIMAN I’m not happy about any of this,” said Thor. “I’m going to kill somebody soon, just to relie...
NEIL GAIMAN Fair enough,” said Thor. “What’s the price?” “Freya’s hand in marriage.” “He just wa...
NEIL GAIMAN Because,” said Thor, “when something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki�...
NEIL GAIMAN You're a poem?' I repeated.

She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am ...
NEIL GAIMAN Kiss a lover,
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure.

Fac...
NEIL GAIMAN Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.
NEIL GAIMAN I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll m...
NEIL GAIMAN The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
NEIL KINNOCK Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.
NEIL KENDALL New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.
NEIL SIMON If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
NEIL PEART Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.
JOHN NEIL It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut...
NEIL ARMSTRONG We have no proof, but if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we h...
NEIL ARMSTRONG That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
NEIL ARMSTRONG For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you ...
NEIL GERSHENFELD Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
NEIL ARMSTRONG For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best...
NEIL ASCHERSON I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to us...
NEIL ARMSTRONG Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little ...
NEIL ARMSTRONG Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sist...
NEIL SIMON