Cass McCombs Quotes
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
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I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
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I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.
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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
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I started feeling secure in every way once I began to accept myself the way I was. Whether that was emotional, financial or professional security, all of it came and embraced me because I embraced myself.
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Blogs are easy to start, but unless the author is famous, it takes years to build a following.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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Acting should be an end in itself.
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What's doubly, possibly triply weird about the [Donald] Trump claim is that I said something really hateful and offended an entire class of people, and in a case that actually has nothing to do with race he should still be conflicted out.
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Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
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I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.
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This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.
