Tommy Shaw Quotes
We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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I definitely write about a lot of dreamy, surreal stuff. I do end up going to a surreal world with my music, but I also like the idea of there being really real stuff as well.
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When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.
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Governments can help support European music by promoting public awareness that when people take music that doesn't belong to them, they undermine the future of those very artists whose work they enjoy.
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Australia is not very exclusive. On the visa application they still ask if you've been convicted of a felony - although they are willing to give you a visa even if you haven't been.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.
