Benji Madden Quotes
Joel? He's the rock star! When you see Joel step on stage... he's born to be a rock star.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their West Coast headquarters is in the Bob Barker building.
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It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.
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I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs that are quite personal, I always feel it's a bit accusing if I stare in someone's face when I singing quite a personal lyric.
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If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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You hit 41 and you don't burn calories like you used to.
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I basically say I'm on tour all the time, because one tour goes into the next.
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People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
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I think we all have different moods - a nerd one day and cool the next. I think everyone has an inner geek, and I know I definitely do.
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I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
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It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.
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Joel? He's the rock star! When you see Joel step on stage... he's born to be a rock star.
