Willem Dafoe Quotes
I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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I am going to support Ola.
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In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't.
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I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.
