Nate Ruess Quotes
A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.
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I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.
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There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.
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It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.
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My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future.
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Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.
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Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.
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True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!
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One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
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I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
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Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.
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I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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If indeed it's a race Then the chicks do the most It isn't a brag Or an estrogen boast It's the women who've led me With big open hearts If not for their love I'd have failed at the start. And it's not just the mothers I speak of them ALL It's a woman there first When somebody falls. The multi of tasking That's easy to tease I dare a great man To try it all, PLEASE! So this is my shout out My rallying cry To women all over I hold you up high And though there are others Who'll think this poem strange It's the women who plant The root of big change.
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I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get.
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I wanted to be myself. Only myself.
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I can't believe that people actually know my first and last name. I think it's really, really, gosh-darn neat.
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A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.
