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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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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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 realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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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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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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We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.
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If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.
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My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that other people wouldn't have been able to do. But then again, we've also been able to live a normal life as well.
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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
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I was a drummer and I played the guitar.
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I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.
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Incremental increases in the minimum wage won't address the underlying skills and investment gaps in Illinois.
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It's an honor to have been considered for the team, and I hope that in the future I will have the chance to represent my country by playing for U.S.A. Basketball.
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A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.
