Evel Knievel Quotes
I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.
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Highdrake said that to make love is to unmake power.
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And tiny vessels oozed into your neck And formed the bruises That you said you didn't want to fade But they did and so did I that day
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The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.
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When I worked with Bill Nighy on 'Wrath of the Titans,' he said to me, 'There's one thing you can promise me, and that's never, ever, ever read your reviews.'
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The fact that there's people out there that care about what I'm eating for breakfast or care about a tweet that I posted in 2012 that they pulled up because they were searching on my Twitter and things like that - it's hard to understand, because it's just me, and I just think, 'What's so interesting about me?'
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I'm a huge reader... I'm a big book nerd. I go through, like, two books a week.
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But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.
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It's not a bad idea to have gossip and talking points in athletics.
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I'm not ashamed to be gay.
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I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
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I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked.
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We'll do a crazy video of a great song that people can actually dance to.
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'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' I've used it to demonstrate racial attitudes to people who I thought needed a better understanding of all human beings. Malcolm was not a racist. He was not looking for revenge. He realized that kindness and goodness did not come from any one kind of person.
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I'd really like to work with Johnny Depp: he seems like a really cool guy; he can do a lot of different things.
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Nothing makes logical sense in this industry.
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I wrote 'Don't Look Back' in November 2011, and when I wrote the novel, it wasn't contracted, so there was a freedom in that - no expectations or anything like that. It was also my first contemporary novel I'd written and sold, which was to Disney/Hyperion in January of 2012.
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Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.
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Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
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I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.
