Michael Stephen Portnoy Quotes
One of my biggest concerns was how defensive the fans would be over The REV's drum throne. I'm grateful they have been welcoming.
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
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I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.
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Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
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They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
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I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men.
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It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.
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Most philosophies wrap their seekers in a strict belief system. By virtue of what they include, they exclude everything else, especially some vital realizations. Periodically revising our philosophy of life as we live it is, therefore, a critically valuable exercise.
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If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover anything that's different? Hip hop is so much of the same thing over and over again." I love hip hop, so I wanted to make an album from that standpoint, 'cause that's who I am.
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I enjoy thelove I receive from my fans and my audience. But I think I know what is realfor me and what is not.
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One of my biggest concerns was how defensive the fans would be over The REV's drum throne. I'm grateful they have been welcoming.
