Joe Lando Quotes
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David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.
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With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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My parents are opposites who balance each other out.
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All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.
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You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.
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It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.
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I used to get very angry as I was getting older, because my voice was breaking. So I've trained my voice so religiously through my teenage years, because I wanted to be able to hit the notes that those females hit. And I can, which is great.
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'Jelly-bean' is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular - I am idling, I have idled, I will idle.
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The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realise, is to feel ourselves to be at home here on earth.
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Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
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It's probably incorrect to say that Islam is 'a religion of peace,' as some politicians like to say. Overstatements like that don't clarify anything.
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It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've had a hard day.
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I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I've been collecting shoes for a long time.
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I'm really not a celebrity; I'm just a teacher.
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A lot of the messed-up stuff that men inflict on women is kind of a symptom of the messed-up stuff that they should be dealing with themselves.
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The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser canine, that is, anything under a hundredweight.
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I scored one film by myself, which was the hardest thing I think I've ever done.
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A creative man is achieved by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to defeat others.
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Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What I’ve up till now, what I’m going to do — they know it all. Nothing gets past their watchful eyes. As I sit there under the shining night sky, again a violent fear takes hold of me. My heart’s pounding a mile a minute, and I can barely breathe. All these millions of stars looking down on me, and I’ve never given them more than a passing thought before. Not just the stars — how many other things haven’t I noticed in the world, things I know nothing about?
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The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn't supposed to be in!
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If you try singling me out to my mother, she'll be down your throat. She has three sons, and she's equally proud of us all.
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I don't like to repeat myself as an actor.
