Tape Quotes - Page 13

• To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one.

  Nick Hornby

  Writing, Letters, Starting

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.99, Penguin

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• The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest.

  Romain Rolland

  Book, Fire, Impact

  "Journey Within". Book by Romain Rolland. Chapter 2: "The Three Revelations", 1947.

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• right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Car, Special, Firsts

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.15, Vintage

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• I hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why.

  Jay Asher

  Listening, Stories, Reason Why

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.17, Penguin

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• I stared at the creased map on my wall, the thin green line connecting all the places I had read about. There they were, all the cities of my imaginary future, held together with tape and marker and pins. In six months, a lot had changed. There was no thin green line that could lead me to my future anymore. Just a girl.

  Kami Garcia

  Girl, Wall, Cities

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2013). “Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series”, p.332, Penguin UK

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• There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her stomach on edge. There was something exciting about it, and something nervous. It made Eleanor feel like everything, like the world, wasn't what she'd thought it was. And that was a good thing. That was the greatest thing.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Different, World, Nervous

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.53, St. Martin's Griffin

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• When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?

  Larry Wall

  Time, Lasts, Used

  "Perl, the first postmodern computer language" by Larry Wall, www.perl.com. March 9, 1999.

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• Kids talk to me and say they want to do musicals again because they've studied the tapes of the old films. We didn't have that. We thought once we had made it, even on film, it was gone except for the archives.

  Gene Kelly

  Kids, Archives, Gone

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I’ve always thought Marilyn Monroe looked fabulous, but I’d kill myself if I was that fat…I went to see her clothes in the exhibition, and I wanted to take a tape measure and measure what her hips were. She was very big.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Clothes, Exhibitions, Fabulous

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• I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.

  Fay Wray

  People, Littles, Film

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• My mom is Christian, and she wouldn't let us listen to rock music. So me and my brother, we had this tape player with head phones, and we locked ouselves in the pantry. We were fighting over the headphones, sitting in the dark pantry listening to Metallica.

  Joel Madden

  Christian, Mom, Brother

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• I find the songs I want to record by listening to as much music as I can. 'When I hear things I really like, I ask the writers to send me a tape of everything they've ever written.

  Alison Krauss

  Song, Listening, Records

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• When someone is in a car accident and they're driving at 100 mph, drunk, who's tape do you think his listening to at that time? Think about it.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Thinking, Mph, Drunk

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• In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Song, Memories, Past

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• They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our stories in locked rare book libraries / our dances on film / The only part of us they can't steal / is what we know.

  Chrystos

  Book, Museums, Library

  Chrystos (1988). “Not vanishing”, Press Gang Pub

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• Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.

  Jeff Dunham

  Fighting, Comedy, Tough

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.

  Stan Musial

  Bats, Balls, Broomsticks

  "Talking hitting with Stan Musial and Tony Gwynn". Sporting News Magazine Interview, www.sportingnews.com. July 28, 1997.

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• These motivational tapes have really inspired me! I'm going to make a million dollars, buy my own company and retire early. Then, I'm going to write a novel and a symphony and give all the profits to charity. Then next month, I'll figure out how to do it.

  Randy Glasbergen

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivation

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• I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I'm admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head.

  Emma Stone

  Mean, Long, House

  "Emma Stone: Riot Girl" by Jessica Pressler, www.elle.com. June 8, 2011.

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• My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.

  Hailee Steinfeld

  Thinking, Nerves, Pages

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.

  Peter O'Toole

  Lines, Relief, Recorders

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• Because of some defect in my motor skill, I can never COMPLETELY wrap [gifts]....If I had been an ancient Egyptian in the field of mummies, the lower half of the Pharaoh's body would be covered only by scotch tape.

  Dave Barry

  Christmas, Skills, Scotch

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• I'm making tapes for insomniacs to use in the future. I'm going to sell them as a kit to cure insomnia.

  Jonathan Turley

  Insomnia, Use, Cures

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• Coaches can talk and talk and talk about something, but if you get it on tape and show it to them, it is so much more effective.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Coaching, Shows

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• The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward.

  Terry Crisp

  Hockey, Nhl, Differences

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