Amanda Seales Quotes
My thing about creating things is that it has to do two purposes: It has to serve me creatively but also has to serve the people.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
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I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
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People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
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Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.
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I never got lessons. I took influence from Chet Baker, Ian Dury, and Joe Strummer. I don't hear my voice and think, 'Yeah, that's a banging voice!' It's more about putting the right emotions into the right words and the lyrics than anything else to me.
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And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to decide what you play. I don't know. I can only say this: I don't want to and have no interest in playing a plastic surgeon. That's for sure. I'm open to anything else.
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Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.
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My thing about creating things is that it has to do two purposes: It has to serve me creatively but also has to serve the people.
