Joe Perry (Anthony Joseph Perry) Quotes
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
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I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.
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The first time I ever got paid to play was 1/18/99, Fire Hall in Bordentown, New Jersey. Played first on the bill - we got paid $20!
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It's important for whoever is governor to be somebody with a breadth of experience in life, in business, and in service.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions. If you are playing somewhere like Austria or Sweden, it takes them a little while to come out of themselves.
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Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.
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It was the rotten fabric woven by evil, the overnight sham bulwarks of enemies of the people; it would burn to ash at the match of truth.
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The beautiful thing about it is that 'Despacito' is not really an English crossover. It was just another song that the world made a crossover. I didn't really push it; it just kinda went there.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
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You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.
