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Before you write - remember that every speech has something of 'you' in the writing. Don't take that away when you write. Be yourself. Be comfortable in your own skin.

Phil Collins

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Phil Collins
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: January 30
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Philip David Charles Collins
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Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock.
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That's going to be on my headstone: 'He came. He wrote 'In the Air Tonight.' He... died.'
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It's always been easy with Mark, he's a rock fan and we speak the same language. He's a big Beatles fan too. We worked a lot via CLI calls, though only meeting up once every couple of months.
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I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.
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This stupid sensitivity! But then women like sensitivity.
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As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.
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There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.
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Put your faith in what you most believe in.
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I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.
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