Brian Fallon Quotes
The Gaslight Anthem is very streamlined. We don't usually use organs and strings and things like that.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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I am pretty self-indulgent.
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The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
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As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.
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I'm not ashamed of it, but people would think I'm ashamed of Bieber. I got Bieber on my iPod.
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You should never go on diet and must follow a healthy lifestyle.
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
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I suppose one of the challenges of writing the word-side of music these days is trying to decipher and communicate how this planet is very overwhelming at this point. The difficulties we face are overwhelming. It's very difficult to give yourself the time to breathe and appreciate the joy and beauty that might be just right around us.
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Grandma and Mama showed me that you always have to give as much as you can, no matter what.
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I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.
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I'm one of the few adults lucky enough to love their job. And when you've got bills to pay, you get on with it! I like challenges.
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When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
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I'm a workaholic.
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Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
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'I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong again.' p76
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I'm ready to live in the present - not the past and not in the future - because in the present is where there's peace.
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I see women going anywhere they want to. And I do mean want to. Because a lot of people measure success merely by position, title and salary. I think women feel comfortable enough in their own skin to put that secondary to what they want. They don't have to define success by the measure of society.
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The Gaslight Anthem is very streamlined. We don't usually use organs and strings and things like that.
