Warren Zevon Quotes
It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
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One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.
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I told my parents that I will marry any girl they choose for me. They also told me that they are open to considering any girl I choose. We were very open about it throughout.
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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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I just do what's comfortable for me, whether it's getting fresh haircuts, or the clothes that I wear. It's simple; I'm just me. I don't really go out of my way. I do make sure my face is washed and moisturized, though.
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In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.
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Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
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What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it.
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I try to be as thoughtful as I can about everything that comes out of my mouth and not reinforce sexism.
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It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.
