Stuff Quotes - Page 18

• I don't really see how any song can not feel contrived if it isn't honest, and how could I write honest songs if I don't write about stuff going on in my life and how I'm feeling?

  Lily Allen

  Song, Writing, Feelings

  "Lily Allen: 'I go through a major life change once a year'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2010.

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• The technology is good and it's bad. You know what you're dealing with out there musically, but my head stops at this electronic stuff. I don't quite know what I'm dealing with out there yet.

  Paul Anka

  Technology, Knows

  "Paul Anka, the original Canadian idol". Interview with Ben Rayner, www.thestar.com. April 16, 2013.

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• Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald's, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Night, Thinking, White

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• To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.

  Phil Anselmo

  Writing, Musician, Needs

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

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• I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was.

  Ryan Adams

  Mistake, Men, Kind

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

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• Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place.

  Steven Adler

  Song, Fall, Writing

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• I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

  Abigail Breslin

  Writing, Kind, Essays

  "Abigail Breslin Talks JANIE JONES, NEW YEAR’S EVE, Animated ZAMBEZIA, and Other Upcoming Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 28, 2011.

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• I fell in love at 14 and I remember that mad, tense feeling and all the mad things you do for the person - all those extremes and all the stuff you don't mind putting up with.

  Douglas Booth

  Mad, Feelings, Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.

  Jennifer Egan

  Writing, Regularity, Wells

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• There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.

  Abby Elliott

  Fun, Writing, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often.

  Danny Elfman

  Independent, Thinking, Play

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• I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.

  Danny Elfman

  Musical, Might, Film

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• Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy biscuits and stuff. From high school onwards I was earning my way with photography, one way or another, working in darkrooms and taking pictures of weddings, neighbors' children and so on.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Children, School

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• My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.

  Emilio Estevez

  Mother, Father, White

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• I used to love the 'Star Trek' movies, 'Wrath of Khan' and stuff like that. Loved those movies when I was a kid. And 'Star Wars' obviously was hands-down probably - I mean I had the sheets. I was a big fan of that.

  Michael Ealy

  Stars, War, Mean

  "Michael Ealy On Set Interview UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING". Group interview, collider.com. August 22, 2011.

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• I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

  Mireille Enos

  Drama, Done, Tvs

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• Because of 'Lost,' particularly, J.J. Abrams's fans are all over his stuff.

  Ron Eldard

  Fans, Lost, Abram

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• I've done a lot of period stuff but that's mostly because, in England, we get off on a lot of period stuff, but it's not any kind of particular choice. That's where a lot of the work is.

  Rupert Everett

  Choices, Done, England

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• I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities, math, and stuff like that. I think I had to take Art History, which I failed a few times.

  Stephen Furst

  Art, Mean, Math

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com.

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• There's almost nothing that distracts you from your day-to-day problems more than a trip. You're totally consumed in the present, you've got new sense impressions, you've got all this stuff to digest.

  Tom Freston

  Problem, Impression, Day To Day

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• I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing.

  Guy Pearce

  Character, Trying, Together

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• Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I'm gonna take my life.

  Frank Zappa

  Suicide, Cracks, Gas

  Song: Stuff Up the Cracks

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• I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff out of Unix. If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, 'Hey, reboot it.'"

  Tom Van Vleck

  Writing, Recovery, Errors

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• Dear Hotel People: We don't need a cheeseball clock-radio. WE NEED PLACES TO PLUG STUFF IN. Thank you.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Travel, People

  Twitter post from May 05, 2011

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• We like to hunt and golf and drive around lost, and scratch and spit, and a whole lot of other disgusting stuff.

  Tracy Byrd

  Golf, Scratches, Spit

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