Mike Lowry Quotes
It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.
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His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.
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Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
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It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.
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I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.
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My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
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People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.
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Before we put an American in harm's way, tell us why. No one wants to see the region descend into further chaos. There's a lot of concern about getting embroiled in another Vietnam and ... about sending American troops once again to fight someone else's war.
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Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots making bad pitches, we don't let ourselves hit pitch good ones.
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It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.
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It`s taken a long time but I think 10 years from now, there will be a breeding pair associated with every dam on the Connecticut River.
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It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock.
