Howard Dwaine Dorough Quotes
When people come to Vegas, they expect a show that's over the top.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.
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There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'
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When you take the problems of the world on your shoulders, your body doesn't feel good. It's just that simple. Leave the problems of the world to the individual problem-makers of the world, and you be the joy-seeker that you are.
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When people want to see your film, you're over the moon because you've actually made real contact. That's something very special.
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As a professional, I think we're not being judged solely on technical ability anymore. People really want to be entertained and enjoy what they're watching.
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When people come to Vegas, they expect a show that's over the top.
