A Quote by Sixto Rodriguez
I'm a musical political, I tend to stick to what I see happening outside my front door.
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I can remember being young and being outside and watch guys go through what they go through with the police, and old ladies come outside their house and be like, 'Oh, Lord, they're hitting him,' or whatever is happening. You see it right in front of your face.
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I come from Beverley in East Yorkshire, and no one there would step outside their front door, or even their back door, on a Saturday night - or any other time, for that matter - unless they were dressed to the nines.
If you live in the city, you only have to look out your window to see enough that would make you feel that you don't want to step outside your front door ever again.
I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
Real life is happening outside and not in front of a computer.
Quiet is definitely not how I would describe New York, but if I go outside of the front door, I see the beautiful Central Park, so it's a nice place to be. And I have a very quiet room, which helps!
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I've always said that I'm an employee and I respect that status but I'm the type of guy who walks in the front door and I'll walk out the front door if it's not right.
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I shouldn't have to worry any time my father walks outside the front door of our home.
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There is no immigration policy in the US that is permitting what's happening. What's happening here is happening outside the law, that our leaders do not wish to enforce or acknowledge. And the same thing happened in the UK.
I think I tend to try to let a woman walk through a door first, and I walk on the outside on the street. But that's probably because I'm an ancient creature.
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