Tommy Lee (Thomas Lee Bass) Quotes
There's Tommy, Tommy Lee the rock star, and Tommy the dad. I'm wearing several hats these days.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.
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I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.
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I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!
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The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
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I always say the next one is my favorite.
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I hold theatre acting in such high esteem that it scares me.
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For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
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I am an abolitionist. What does this mean? Abolitionist resistance and resilience draws from a legacy of black-led anti-colonial struggle in the United States and throughout the Americas, including places like Haiti, the first black republic founded on the principles of anti-colonialism and black liberation.
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I definitely had those moments, like any actor, when you get anxious and think, 'When am I going to work again?' But I would feel that way even when I had every offer in the world coming to me. Then I became a father and I felt a little more of the anxiety that came with the responsibility of being a parent.
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My stage name is actually my nickname given to me by my dad when I was a baby.
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During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.
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My dad gave my brother and I a camera to film our football games when we were 10 years old so we could see how we could get better. Then one day, we decided to pick up the camera and film whatever we were doing.
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There's Tommy, Tommy Lee the rock star, and Tommy the dad. I'm wearing several hats these days.
