Tommy Shaw Quotes
I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
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Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'll do.
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.
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I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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When I'm up against a wall, that's when Billy Mays performs best.
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When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth.
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When I came out to Hollywood in 1985, I thought that I would be sitcom star. I'm a tall, skinny, goofy guy. I thought that I would make a great funny neighbor, or wacky office mate, in a sitcom.
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It's not all about getting one guy into the end zone. It's about getting the team into the end zone, putting up points and winning games.
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I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.
