Joey Santiago Quotes
People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn't speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I'm doing this job which is not quite acting - part of it is me, part performance. You're presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing.
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I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.
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There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.
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As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.
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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.
