Tommy Lee (Thomas Lee Bass) Quotes
Nikki lives around the corner from me and I see him all the time. We talk a lot, and of course we're still friends. That was our baby, Motley Crue, we put that band together.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
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My folks are in Jersey. And I have a lot of friends and other family there. So, I try to visit as much as possible.
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Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it.
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What I'm not about is exploiting women.
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I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
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I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.
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Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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We shot 'CBGB' in Savannah, and then I took another project there afterwards called 'Killing Winston Jones.' It's a dark comedy with Richard Dreyfuss, Danny Glover, Jon Heder, Danny Masterson and Aly Michalka. It's a great cast and a beautiful film.
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We've had a pretty good season, ... The boys did a good job, they put up good numbers and it was good enough to win.
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Nikki lives around the corner from me and I see him all the time. We talk a lot, and of course we're still friends. That was our baby, Motley Crue, we put that band together.
