M. Shadows Quotes
It's important to know the ins and outs of the music business, but you can also dive too deeply into it and forget that you're really here to make music.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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There's no regrets for me.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I think it's really important for my daughter to see her parents being physically fit and for that to be a part of her life. The examples we set for her will stay with her the rest of her life.
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The Cubists used the figure, but they broke it up.. .But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The nocturne transformed itself into dreamy rooms with Chopin's music creating a mood that softened the hard core of self.quote from conversation with Seitz
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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
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Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.
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It's important to know the ins and outs of the music business, but you can also dive too deeply into it and forget that you're really here to make music.
