Tommy Bolin (Thomas Richard Bolin) Quotes
My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.
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I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.
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Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.
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If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
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England is very, very important to me, because in my family the English could do no wrong. When my father picked a mistress, it was always an English girl: if he made her pregnant, she could be shipped back to England and he would not be held responsible. It never happened, but I've made a lot of work called The English Can Do No Wrong.
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'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.'
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As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that defy physics. Then something happens. As we grow older, we start editing our imagination.
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DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
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You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.
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Rock guitar has been around for decades now, and there are so many strong traditions, and so much of it is just burned into my fingers. So, nine times out of 10, when I pick up the guitar to jam something, it sounds pretty cliche.
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The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
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I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.
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I think that without sushi there would be no David Hasselhoff, because sushi is like the perfect way of describing the insides of David Hasselhoff. He is like a protein, clean and easy. That's how I feel about myself.
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I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't.
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As much as "The Lobster" feels like a world we recognize but not the world we live in, it's all drawn in an allegorical way from all the systems that exist.
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My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.
