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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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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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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Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
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I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.
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I am able to compete not because my labour is cheap, but because I can use technology better than others.
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I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.
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You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.
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That's why I won't give up! I'll continue to move forward because I believe!
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I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.
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Today I do affirm that I am Divinely guided...There is that within which knows what to do and how to do it, and it compels me to act on what it knows.
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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.
