Wesley Borland (Wes Borland) Quotes
It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
-
Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
-
I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
-
I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
-
My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
-
The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
-
I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
-
I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
-
I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.
-
Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
-
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
-
I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
-
Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.
-
As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
-
These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
-
Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
-
Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
-
It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
-
Many of us develop different flavors of cynicism that we work hard to resist because they can be lazy mental shortcuts.
-
I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.
-
We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.
-
Looking back at it now, any objective account of my life is bound to read like a cross between 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and a travel brochure.
-
It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.
