M. Shadows Quotes
If there's something I really like or a chord progression, I write a note in my Blackberry, and maybe a year later, I'll revisit it and ask, 'What did I like about that?' I really don't try to think too much about it. I like to be fresh.
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If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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Gooseberries aren't just for creamy desserts and pies.
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I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.
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People do stupid things in the heat of the moment. I've been in Vegas where I've gotten married for, like, five minutes.
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I'm not working now, so I'm sort of facing the unknown.
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I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It's my favorite thing to do, for sure.
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I don't idealise women. I enjoy them. I have been married to two of the most independent women it is possible to think of.
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Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
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I have spent my career fighting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive.
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I'm not going to be doing anything to hurt myself or my fans.
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I'd rather go after the people who are the guardians or what we're doing - the news people and the politicians and that sort of thing. I always feel like those should be my targets, not really entertainers. That's just my personal opinion.
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You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.
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I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.
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I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.
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When I hear other artists talk, they talk about 'How come radio's not playing my song?' Well, you have to look at it under a microscope and know that each station is just trying to do what's right for their market, and it's scary for a radio station to add a song that they don't know how well it's gonna do for them.
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The more we know about how we lost our spontaneous wonder and creativity, the more we can find ways to get them back.
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I've done great theatre, great films and had a lot of opportunities in television. I also love to sing, and I've been able to do that once or twice in the television shows.
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
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If there's something I really like or a chord progression, I write a note in my Blackberry, and maybe a year later, I'll revisit it and ask, 'What did I like about that?' I really don't try to think too much about it. I like to be fresh.
