Ammon Hennacy Quotes
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.
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Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.
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I have no television - I hate it.
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You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.
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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
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Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
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To the more judicial and scientific temper of our day their invective would seem overdrawn and their sympathy would seem partisanship. In Jeremiah and in the prophetic psalms the poor as a class are made identical with the meek and godly, and 'rich' and 'wicked' are almost synonymous terms.
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Use some reverence. Remember what he was only a minute ago. You wouldn't have dared laid a hand on him.
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I got great voice training in St. Mary’s Church, Wavertree, in Liverpool, when I was a lad. Dressing up in cassocks was all part of the fun. I used to earn sixpence a week and although I don’t go to church very much any more, 'Once In Royal David’s City' is still my favourite hymn.
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I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.
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One of the benefits of having an audience is that it requires a regimen, a need to create on a regular basis. I don't believe in waiting for the muse to visit.
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If I died on the battlefield, then that was the way it was supposed to be.
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What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.
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“I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me.”
