Cass McCombs Quotes
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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Developing nations want to become developed nations.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
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All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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During war, the laws are silent.
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Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
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The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
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I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.
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Image is powerful, but image is also superficial.
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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
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Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.
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Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode on which the poem is based in a lecture I gave at Harvard in the fall of 2000 entitled Bright Boltsand remembered it after the Twin Towers attack.
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As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.
