Avey Tare (David Michael Portner) Quotes
I always thought it was important for my lyrics to come from a really honest place.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration.
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
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If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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A melody is not merely something you can hum.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
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It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.
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After having seen the job done on that first show of mine, I realized that I felt like I wanted to work again for a short while. Two, three years, then stop.
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I think it is important to maintain your personality, your roots, very important.
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For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the finality of year's end.
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The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
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I always thought it was important for my lyrics to come from a really honest place.
