Alex Van Halen Quotes
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Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.
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I really hate to write.
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I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.
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When you have to do as much as women do, the Internet allows you to - from home - figure out a way to extend your reach and power in the world. It allows you to do what job you've done traditionally, and create aspirations by carrying on a job and using the Internet to amplify everything you're doing.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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I love dressing up.
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We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
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The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.
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It's as much fun to scare as to be scared.
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It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.
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People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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America's security and prosperity didn't work unless other nations were also secure, and prosperous. There had to be something in it for them, so we weren't looking simply to grab territory, or widen our sphere of influence, or anything like that. We wanted to make the world a better place, and get very rich in the process.
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Some things are impossible.
