Dean Wareham Quotes
Rock is periodically pronounced dead by clear rock critics - killed by world music, or by hip-hop, or electronica, or the Backstreet Boys. But if you wait a year, it comes back to life.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
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We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
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Our approach to banking is very different from the traditional banks or even some of the new banks. We do not necessarily go out and write single-cheque, large-ticket loans.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano and singing to all the big agencies.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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I think this insatiable need to get to know new music is a big part of why it has lasted so long.
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
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The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn't mean that we're rebellious.
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Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.
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Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God.
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Rock is periodically pronounced dead by clear rock critics - killed by world music, or by hip-hop, or electronica, or the Backstreet Boys. But if you wait a year, it comes back to life.
