Tommy Shaw Quotes
I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.
Tommy Shaw
Styx
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
Mallory Ortberg
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
Nathan Fillion
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We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?
Pat Mastelotto
Mr. Mister
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
Inbee Park
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
Nathan Fielder
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
Jack Lemmon
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
Larry Flynt
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
Kate Bush
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Conscience is God present in man.
Victor Hugo
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
Candice Olson
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I liked to discover connections like that, especially if they concerned Lila. I traced lines between moments and events distant from one another, I established convergences and divergences. In that period it became a daily exercise: the better off I had been in Ischia, the worse off Lila had been in the desolation of the neighborhood; the more I had suffered upon leaving the island, the happier she had become. It was as if, because of an evil spell, the joy or sorrow of one required the sorrow or joy of the other; even our physical aspect, it seemed to me, shared in that swing.
Elena Ferrante
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We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
Ralph Fiennes
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I'm not sure Riot Grrrl would have been as big a deal if the Internet had existed back then. Because there's so much stuff on the Internet. People could have been like, oh, whatever, I'm going to go look at pictures of Barbie vaginas, you know what I mean? There's so many different things on the Internet, you read one article and then you read something linked off that article and you go down the rabbit hole.
Kathleen Hanna
Bikini Kill
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I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
Ranbir Kapoor
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I've always done a lot of research and stuff around the songs that I write so there are pages and pages of writing and you can kind of see these songs emerging.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.
Tommy Shaw
Styx
