Angus McKinnon Young Quotes
That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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Thank God there is a such thing as hiatus. We got the first 'Dr. Horrible' done in six days, we banged it out.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
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Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.
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My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they're full of muscle. 'Copacabana' sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
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When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
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I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.
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There is still a very strong subculture of people who want to do great things on an instrument, and who are stimulated by hearing people who can. That's reassuring. But it's gonna take a person - and I don't know who this is - to come along and reinvent the guitar as a virtuosic instrument in a completely different realm than any of us have done, or anybody else in the past. That's the clincher. Maybe that will happen and maybe it won't.
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I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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The sound was essentially background sound, myself, and Carl, Dennis and Al Jardine, Mike was our lead singer. The four of us put our voices together. We had done it really beautifully. We had a beautiful blend. We really did.
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If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting.
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I always watch the work I do.
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That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.
