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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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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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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You have to decide what kind of story you're going to tell. For instance I would argue a movie like 'Toy Story 3,' which isn't realistic at all, is really emotional and involving. It just depends. I played this game called 'Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP' for iPad that is totally old school 8-bit, which I found very moving.
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The very first song I ever wrote was a song called 'Crazy' when I was 11 or 12 with my best girlfriends - we had a girl band. It was about loving a guy who everyone else thought you were crazy for being into.
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It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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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.
