Bars Quotes - Page 12

• Work saved me. Literature saved me. It sounds corny but it's absolutely true. I was going in the wrong direction, but after the 9,000th night at the bar doing dope with a bunch of Dead Heads, I began to think there was something more.

  T.C. Boyle

  Night, Dope, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm really terrible at math, so I won't even attempt to do ratios and percentages, but all I know is that there's a lot of new songs that no-one has heard yet, and that there's a lot of old songs that some very, very super hardcore fans have heard for sure - there are people that have been coming and seeing me play in bars in like 2002, and there are songs that those people heard.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Math, Play

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• I feel like there's not this black-and-white division between concert hall music and music that bands play in a bar. I don't know if this was ever truly the case, but I don't feel that I need to decide between playing for a sit-down, totally silent audience and playing for a bunch of noisy, drunk people in a bar. What I do with the group is somewhere in between.

  Missy Mazzoli

  Black And White, Play, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For years I was so busy building walls I did not see I was imprisoning myself behind them, and did not recognize this pattern as being addiction. My addictive thinking and behavior became the bars of my cell. Denying feeling empty inside, I constantly looked for new things to acquire, people to be around, substances to take, and new goals to achieve in order to feel better about myself. Over the last four decades I have focused on healing my addictive mind and helping others do the same.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Wall, Healing, Feel Better

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Men, Old Man

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Blackbeard was larger than life. He was 6'4" in 1710. He was a colossus, and like a rock star walking into a bar. He was a tremendous commander, a great leader.

  Ray Stevenson

  Stars, Rocks, Leader

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V. and spent whole Bar Mitzvah checks on Beat poetry.

  Simon Rich

  Book, Mitzvah, Half

  "Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview With Simon Rich". Interview with Maureen Miller, therumpus.net. June 9, 2010.

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• I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  People, Stories, Tribes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Alejandro Amenábar has a unique way of approaching movies and thinking about something which was new to me. It was different. I have a lot of respect for him so I just took a gamble.

  Ethan Hawke

  Unique, Thinking, Different

  "Ethan Hawke on ‘Regression’, ‘The Magnificent Seven’, and Playing a Space Pimp in ‘Valerian’". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I've very rarely worked with somebody that had such a clear idea of what Alejandro Amenábar wanted to do and what he wanted to achieve. The guy is incredibly prepared. He was clearly making a movie for himself and his own dream. I just tried to be a part of that dream. It's a rare opportunity.

  Ethan Hawke

  Dream, Opportunity, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• I had a guy at the Groucho bar clawing at my arm nearly in tears saying that until he saw The Departed he thought Americans were the ones on TV. I didn't know you had accents. I didn't know you had a class system. I didn't know you were like us. To which the answer is, probably only where I grew up, but while we're at it don't watch television and think it's the United States of America.

  William Monahan

  Thinking, Class, America

  Source: collider.com

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• When you make a movie with Alejandro Amenábar, he very quickly... it was very clear you're kind of operating in his dream universe.

  Ethan Hawke

  Dream, Kind, Amen

  "Ethan Hawke Talks Regression". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

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• Not a lot of gay guys end up coming to alt-comedy-ish shows. They like all these '80s shimmer shows, or they like going to drag shows. It is always weird and interesting when I meet somebody at a gay bar who is familiar with my stuff.

  Guy Branum

  Gay, Interesting, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• While I was doing shitty little bar shows in the Central Valley in 2004, I was being out and helping people realize that gay people aren't monsters, that they are just people. So I look at this world with a great deal of pride, and I'm excited for it.

  Guy Branum

  Pride, Gay, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I watched a lot of the James Bond movies, certainly, both the old ones and the reboot with Daniel Craig. I watched a lot of the Matt Helm films with Dean Martin, which just have these great car scenes where it's rear-projected, and they just start making martinis out of a bar in the glove compartment.

  Adam Reed

  Car, Gloves, Film

  Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.

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• The Dior heritage is so broad. It has a strong presence in the work. So, when people have to define it quickly, it's, like, the Bar jacket and the movement and the luxury and the Belle Époque and so much more.

  Raf Simons

  Strong, Luxury, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.

  Christopher Rice

  People, Wish, May

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• One of my oldest friends from Kansas, his sister was married to Ben [Folds] and wrote lyrics on his first couple of albums. I got to meet him the first time I saw them in concert at The Bottleneck, a great bar in Lawrence, Kansas. Then, he was the musical guest my first or second week as a writer on SNL. I was like, "I don't know if you remember me?" And he was like, "Oh my god, yeah!" He's a big photography fan, as am I.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Photography, Couple, Kansas

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• It's a group of men - Conor included - everyone is so collaborative and cooperative, kind, considerate, very professional. And they know their craft. They know it very very well. There's no room for messing around. It's not messy at all. When I go in at this level, when I get the opportunity to play and work at this level, it's at the top of the game. I think, in life, we rise to whatever the bar is. I've been fortunate to rise with them.

  Sean Mahon

  Opportunity, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• What I really like about Cuba is that you can go into a local bar in a provincial town and you'll get jazz played at the highest standard - played often a cappella, or certainly with no amplification or whatever. Even if you are not knowledgeable about music, and I am not, you can find yourself really enjoying it.

  John Gimlette

  Finding Yourself, Cuba, Amplification

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• In fact, I might be confident for the human race because of what the human race has given me. When I was in the street and bars, people always came up to me and said, "Don't stop, keep going."

  Benjamin Clementine

  Race, People, Facts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would love to host someone's bar mitzvah. I would love to do that.

  Ilana Glazer

  Mitzvah, Host, Bar Mitzvah

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit in front of my computer for 18 hours programming 16 bars of music.

  Keith Fullerton Whitman

  Guy, Doe, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Trying to solve the problem by creating more debt is analogous to trying to stop being an alcoholic by going on a bender down at the corner bar.

  John L. Casti

  Creating, Trying, Debt

  "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

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• It's uncommon, but there are some people who just have a delayed circadian rhythm and they just - they sleep better during the day then they do at night. So they've - a lot of those people with delayed sleep phase disorder they start to work in bars, they work some of the late night shifts, they sort of adjust to doing it more and more as time goes on.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Night, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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