Douglas Glenn Colvin (Dee Dee Ramone) Quotes
There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.
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Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
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I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
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A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.
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I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.
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I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
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My best friend is my husband.
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As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
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There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.
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The climax is the place where the opposing forces in your story finally clash. This is true whether those opposing forces are two armies or two values inside a character's soul.
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You never find virtuosity for its own sake.
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You know, when you run you got to be all in and you take risks of winning and losing.
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Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.
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Step by step, the road is long, but at the end you can touch a star.
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The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.
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There's a side to being in a band that some people embrace and some don't: the fact that you're performing and you care about how it comes across.
