Syd Barrett Quotes
The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.
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I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.
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If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go.
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Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.
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Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers.
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I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.
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As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.
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Sport's always a good thing - it's healthy, and it takes your mind off other things.
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I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before.
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I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink, and then went to bed. I don't know what it was like in your house, but that is how it was in mine. I think it is cool to have the dads in the trenches and doing the real parenting work.
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I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
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Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The kids can get used to you going to work; they can't get used to you ignoring them. And work sometimes gets the message you're not as committed.
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If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
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I have no time for women who don't support other women. It's the ultimate compliment when a woman tells you that you look good.
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I shouldn't even be here, so if I'm here, I better do something good.
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I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
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And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.
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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.
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We get first-rate faculty members from the leading engineering and science institutes to train our people.
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The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.
