Greg Ginn Quotes
People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the bands existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. Im sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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The first time I saw 'Private Practice,' I was hooked. The camera work is captivating, the acting is the-best-of-the-best amazing, and each storyline is so interesting and different.
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There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.
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The world was not supportive. They look at me as a joke for 13 to 14 years until I could prove feasibility; then I had competitors. Those that laughed at me became my competitors.
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No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.
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A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
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No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.
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Just watching TV as a kid, for a long time I thought, as a young kid, obviously when I was, like, 4 or 5, I thought that people lived in the television.
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The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characters' in a 'setting' who speak 'dialogue' encased in 'scenes.' Most importantly, you - like the playwright - have an 'audience.'
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A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.
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There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.
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I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945 that knocked me for a loop. The article explained that a military plane had crashed in an impossibly remote valley of New Guinea that had been nicknamed Shangri-La.
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I can't tell you the number of times people have told me if I just lost 10kg, I could go much further in my career. But I'm determined to show them - and other average-size women - it is doable and possible.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the bands existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. Im sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared.
