Paul Westerberg Quotes
A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.
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They've imitated me so good that sometimes I hear people copying my mistakes...
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
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I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do.
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A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.
