Jim Woodring Quotes
Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.
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Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
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The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.
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Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.
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I'm all about the drugstore beauty products. They're affordable and get the job done.
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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
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The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
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Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
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Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.
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I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.
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But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
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I have friends, I'm from Texas originally, and they follow me and they keep up with what I'm doing.
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Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
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It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit.
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Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.
