Avey Tare (David Michael Portner) Quotes
People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebenezer Scrooge with OCD, Sherlock Holmes with autism, and Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.
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You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.
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You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.
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I think the core of fans' relationship is one that vacillates schizophrenically and mercurially from reverence to resentment. Fans fetishize the players' athletic genius and both deify it and demonize it; witness the way awe turns into anger whenever a player holds out or flips off the offensive coordinator.
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And what do you think will happen to you when you find life is just too good to be left alone? You'll start living it.
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Eartha Mae is very shy. She's scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it's fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!
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To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back.
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It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.
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People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.
