Theodore Roethke Quotes
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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I'm a composer, man.
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My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.
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Since I was very young, probably two or three, I had really good memorization skills. I would memorize stuff from TV and perform it for my family. I was the little performer for most of my early life. So eventually, my mom caught onto that and thought I might want to get into acting.
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At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wanting to go to sleep. Now I know that's normal, so I'll just get up and watch TV or something. I know it's just my subconscious mind getting ready for a game.
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Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.
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Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
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With George Bush's policies, I could make an argument for how they affect black people in a negative way. You know what I mean? But I wouldn't argue that he's a white supremacist.
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A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.
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You are an independent mind in this universe that can do everything and anything you have ever dreamed of.
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I think it's a lot richer than what we call fleshy improv, I think it's very funny, puppet improv and fleshy improv.
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They all live in quite separate boxes actually although the Machetes project is beginning to take over my life! They represent and are an inspiration to me and a reminder of where I came from, I am very passionate about this band. I have been working with Erin for so long now she is a part of me and my music. Ian is my oldest and closest friend, we have been striving for the same goals artistically for years now
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It doesn't matter how rich you are - you know when you're being ripped off.
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I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.
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That's what you strive for - you strive to take your move to the next level. It's about shock value, always shock value, but keeping it flavor and stylized and making it yours.
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When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
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We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.
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And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.
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Be who you are - whatever you are.
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The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw into leadership men and women (mostly men) who know how to gain, exert and manipulate power.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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Be sure that whatever you are is you.
