Jason Newsted Quotes
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
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I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so much that they offered dual enrollment classes. So my senior year, I ended up taking college dance courses while I was in high school because I had good grades.
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A huge part of my career and how I want to participate in the world is being unapologetically myself and being honest and vulnerable.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.
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Overpopulated fiction can be so confusing that readers put the story down. Under-populated novels can seem claustrophobic or boring. You want the right number of characters for your particular work.
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Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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I just moved to Florida to seek out opportunities.
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Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.
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The past is where its supposed to be.
