Mike Patton Quotes
The studio is my main compositional tool. And I used to be horrible in the studio. I didn't know any kind of technical stuff. But when you have something in your head, you've gotta figure out a way of executing it.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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Family comes out whenever we know it's gonna be steady on a run that's continuous.
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To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.
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I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
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I hate the word sexy.
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
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My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'
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People ask if I can get it up in the morning. I tell them are you kidding I'm envious of a stiff wind.
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Life is difficult in Africa, even getting three square meals.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and ex-lovers and dreaming like a zombie over the page till you can't see or hear or smell or taste, you have something.
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I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.
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The studio is my main compositional tool. And I used to be horrible in the studio. I didn't know any kind of technical stuff. But when you have something in your head, you've gotta figure out a way of executing it.
