Joe Trohman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
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I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade.
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The wonderful thing about drama school is that it stretches you in a way the industry doesn't.
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I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
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My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I'm concerned, love is absolutely everything.
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If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.
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My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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Touch is more important than arm strength. You want to really allow the receiver to run underneath the throw. It'll give you a little margin for error if you undershoot it a bit.
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Books are still my favorite present.
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I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.
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All the things I've thought about love are true. It's beautiful and terrible and it doesn't make things perfect. It ends things, and it brings beginnings. This is mine.
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A teenage girl lay asleep on the sofa, curled up under a red-and-black knitted afghan. She was on her side, with one slender arm cradling a throw cushion nestled under her head. Long wavy blond hair spread across her back and her shoulders like a cape. Even though she was sleeping, Alex could see how pretty she was, with her delicate, almost elfin features. He stood in the doorway, watching the soft rise and fall of her chest.
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Clutter is postponed decisions.
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He isn't insane, he's simply as trapped in his life as I am in mine. That makes us friends.
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Sometimes it's a struggle to keep up with my own photos, where the lighting is perfect, the makeup is done, and the images have been retouched. That's not what I see when I look in the mirror!
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I like guitar sounds to be a little somber.
