Jeffrey Ross Hyman (Joey Ramone) Quotes
When Dee Dee would start singing, he would stop playing the guitar, because he couldn't sing and play at the same time.
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With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.
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There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
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I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
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Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.
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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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Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other.
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My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.
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I found it hard being a full-time mum and take my hat off to anyone who can do it.
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The only time my workout goes a little haywire is when I'm travelling.
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A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
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The benefit of film is that you're shooting something for an intense period of time - and then it's over, and you move on to something else. In TV, you're doing the same thing over and over.
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All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.
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Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule.
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Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.
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I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
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When Dee Dee would start singing, he would stop playing the guitar, because he couldn't sing and play at the same time.
