Eric Reed Boucher (Jello Biafra) Quotes
I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
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There are a lot of guys who play in pro-style offenses who are not prepared when they come out of college. Either you're coaching the quarterback to be a quarterback, or you're not.
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Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born.
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Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.
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I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.
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Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.
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I had really no sense of style. Everyone around me in my family had the sense of style - I learned as much as I possibly could.
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We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's, like, 60 - and it doesn't work.
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I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.
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There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.
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I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
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There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.
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You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
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It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.
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There's a hustling, but also a self-centred vibe you can get from people in Delhi.
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Most people haven't seen my dramatic work, but I did 10 years of theater before I ever became a comic. I'm just better known for comedy.
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I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.
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I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.
