Mojo Nixon Quotes
Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me.
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A happy wife is a happy life.
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to be on 'American Bandstand' and 'Soul Train' as a solo artist. As a producer, songwriter and arranger, I help other artists say what they want to say. But on my records, I say what I want to say.
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There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.
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My character Saurabh Singhania is a rich, bad guy who is driven by revenge, so much that you feel like scratching his face or throwing stones at him. The intimate scenes in the trailer are creating quite a buzz... I wish they had shown more of the story instead of the sizzling scenes. The film is not about boldness or intimacy.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I'd like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.
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How we get power, how cars are powered, when the technology and resources to have something that is infinitely better, we still use old-school technology. We're still using that same exact structure.
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I am always looking for options that yield something unexpected.
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I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.
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For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
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For filming, we have to wear a lot more makeup than we usually would. At night, I have to go home and take off all the makeup and take my hair out from my bun and just get out of the dancewear and everything.
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When I lived in London when I did 'Wicked' there, everyone told me the audiences might be much more reserved, but I found it was completely the opposite. They jumped to their feet sooner, even more enthusiastically than the New York audiences did, and they were just as warm and as enthusiastic and supportive as New York.
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'The House Of Tomorrow' offered such a fantastic script. I couldn't believe that script - it was just so original and unique.
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"I think you have to be ready to quit within yourself. If you're not, it doesn't matter what rehab you go to."
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I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.
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If you're a Christian you don't sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing, if they're happy and they're committed in a relationship.
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I believe in treating other people with respect. My style is to speak to people, be available to them and willing to answer their questions. This also means being straightforward and honest with them.
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I feel I should be doing stupid stuff, but I'm not going to.
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Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me.
