Douglas Glenn Colvin (Dee Dee Ramone) Quotes
I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.
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I love to work with performers that are very different to me.
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I admire a lot of people, but in terms of sport I've always loved the mentality of Tiger Woods on a golf course. I always love his eyes when he's setting himself and focusing on his decision; he has a really strong, focused face and believes that he can make the shot.
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I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way of delivering textbooks. They're just not really that, yet. There's all sorts of poisons and mined minerals and carnage that goes on to make a tablet. Way more than to print a book. Or a bunch of books.
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To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!
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I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.
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I'm not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice.
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I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.
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I think Phil Collins is one of the most underrated musicians, singers, performers - he is absolutely amazing, I think, and I think hes probably got a bit of a rough ride occasionally because he became so mainstream and so popular.
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I do have a spongelike ear or mentality or whatever you call it, but it's probably a bit subconscious.
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... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.
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Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.
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I don't think we have to enter into panic.
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Television's very much a writer's medium, as it probably should be, but if you're not the writer, then as the performer, you defer to that. It's just kind of how it's constructed. Is there some leeway? Yeah. But I also don't want to come across as a jerk.
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That's possible, but not likely. I don't think this will happen.
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I don't think that because you are a perfectionist that that makes you necessarily automatically unlikable.
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It's a really weird mindset to kind of try to take my mentality on the basketball court and bring it here on to the golf course. I don't want to have too high of expectations on, like, each hole, just try to enjoy the process, but hopefully get out to a good start tomorrow and be in the conversation and see what happens.
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They who are to be judges must also be performers.
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I don't think boxing took more from me then I got in return. It gave me everything that I took from it. It was all fair.
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Sometimes they laugh at things I don't think are funny, but I believe if they're laughing at me, it's a good show.
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I think that one of the greatest perspectives that I have, from being a buyer for my whole career until I became a producer, is that I have a pretty good understanding of the buyer's mentality.
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All I meant was we all make choices in life. I don't think your mom made bad choices. It's just...if you make a left turn, you can't make a right turn at the same time.
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I heard that senior officials in China and the United States were discussing whether to encourage a coup in North Korea to get a more pliable ruler. So I've taken steps to ensure that this can't happen. The man in our government closest to the Chinese, who could have arranged such a coup attempt, was my uncle. The man who would have been my natural replacement was my half brother. Both have been liquidated, as have more than 100 disloyal high-level officials.
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I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wouldn't have gone off and blown us both into the same crater, or that God himself wouldn't have come along and knocked our heads together in a flash of green sunlight. But it wouldn't have been likely.
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I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.
