M. Shadows Quotes
Sometimes, I feel like my lyrics meander a little bit, and our songs are so big I need to write more words than are necessary.
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting, and I was so excited because I was like, 'Oh my God, this is my life!' I love fantasy football, and I play with my buddies, and my wife is frustrated with it.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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I never lie to my fans.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.
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A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.
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I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.
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For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.
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When we know what words are worth, the amazing thing is that we try to say anything at all, and that we manage to do so. This requires, it is true, a supernatural nerve.
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A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.
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Sometimes, I feel like my lyrics meander a little bit, and our songs are so big I need to write more words than are necessary.
