Earl Derr Biggers Quotes
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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I like being involved with projects that are not only entertaining but are also thought provoking. Either that, or jobs that keep a roof over my head. A mixture of both is always nice.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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I love Vegas. It's like going to Disneyland.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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I like happy endings.
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I don't like laziness or cutting corners.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo.
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We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
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Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.
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I like drums, really, if they're under control.
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I like mac and cheese.
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You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
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Having a chance to be someone other than yourself and to act out stuff that makes people look at you, like, wow, and that's why I love acting so much.
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Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.
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I was sick of fast, aggressive music; I felt like I needed to make a poppy thing. But, right now, I feel like I need to make a Hawkwind/Sabbath record. It gets boring if you just do the same thing all the time.
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Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.
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This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.
