Darrell Lance Abbott (Dimebag Darrell) Quotes
As far as I'm concerned, it's no good being able to wail out smokin' leads if your rhythm chops hugg!
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
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Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.
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I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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As far as I'm concerned, it's no good being able to wail out smokin' leads if your rhythm chops hugg!
