Larry Mullen, Jr. Quotes
I've often thought that it would be great to do some acting because nobody would think that I would be able to do it and it scares the living hell out of me.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.
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If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
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I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.
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I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.
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I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.
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I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.
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I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
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Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.
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I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.
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I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.
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I can't think of any shows I've watched about teenagers that has the same spirit that 'Skins' has, the same honesty about it.
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Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for.
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I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.
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My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
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If you're passionate about something, go for it, because people are great at what they love and when they're the happiest.
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My parents had become adults during the Great Depression, as had many of my aunts and uncles, so I got stories from all of them. They are fastened up inside me, and now and again, they have to come out.
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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
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I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. … Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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I've often thought that it would be great to do some acting because nobody would think that I would be able to do it and it scares the living hell out of me.
