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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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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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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There's no one right way to be a person, we're all just doing our best. So the same thing should apply to parenting and raising your children and the things you go through.
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That’s a different story. The domestic championship is one thing, the UEFA Champions League is another, but this win surely boosts our confidence to achieve something good against Panathinaikos
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I'm sick of being known as the sexy guy that writes great songs.
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Resistance to oppression is second nature.
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When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes.
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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.
