Larry Mullen, Jr. Quotes
There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.
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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
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You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens.' There's nothing I can do to affect it.
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I do sometimes wonder if people think, 'Oh we'll have her because she cries well.' The odd thing is I don't really know where it comes from. If the script is good, I find I can usually cry without too much trouble - in fact, the hard thing is trying to get me to stop. But I'm not really a crier in real life. I'm not a dramatic person, you see.
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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
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At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.
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I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
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In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.
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Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
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It's creepy to see fan sites about me.
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What more can you ask for than to see a ballgame in spring?
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'
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The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!
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When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it.
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You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.
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He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.
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I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
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Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.
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I will just think, why am I singing? Then I will know everything I need to know about what I'm feeling.
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My big regret is that my brother and I didn't start doing what we did like, 10 years before. I feel like then we would have sold some records. We started pretty late - I was 27 when our first album came out.
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There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.
