Fred Durst Quotes
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I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.
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I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.
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I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.
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If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.
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I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
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I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
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I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.
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It is often better for a person to recognize a sin than to do a good deed. Recognizing a sin makes a person humble. Doing a good deed often can feed a person’s pride.
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A couple of times, when we needed a big stop, we didn't get it. We gotta be able to make a play when it presents itself. You have to make it in arena football. That was basically the tale of the tape.
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The world is so caught up in the 'American Idol' idealistic sort of tendency in regards to just thinking that this whole thing is what everybody wants, but it doesn't help you make a better record.
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Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
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I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.
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Life attracts life.
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I have always been Fred Durst and I've always been me.