Joey Kramer Quotes
I have been through a lot of ups and downs in life, both personally and professionally, and I discovered over the years that I have a lot of fortitude, and I got that from my dad.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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Buildings are forms of performances.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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I always had a fascination with twins.
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I'm the girl that waits for the director to say, 'I like that,' or 'Can you boost it up?,' or 'Can you pull it down?' I'm that kind of actor. I started in theater, so that's the feedback that I'm accustomed to. It's the feedback that I really thrive off of.
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Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.
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God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
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We call our rich relatives the kin we love to touch.
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I have been through a lot of ups and downs in life, both personally and professionally, and I discovered over the years that I have a lot of fortitude, and I got that from my dad.
