J. Tillman Quotes
I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?
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The French complain of everything, and always.
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A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
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It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
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Politics is a good thing!
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I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
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I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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One of the great things about the Internet is that people are excited about music and wanna hear a random album from a band somewhere in Romania or something, and to listen to all sorts of stuff from around the world.
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Any time you die in a film, it's not real, so it's all kind of fun.
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I try very hard to be bad, but people never take me seriously.
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Every relationship is work.
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Because I practice often with my children at home.
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
