Micky Dolenz Quotes
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.
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I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick.
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I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.
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I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.
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I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
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I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'
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The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.
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Here in Denver, we want to thank Jeremy Jacobs for the way he runs his business. Otherwise, we wouldn't have gotten Ray Bourque and won a Stanley Cup.
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When I was younger, I just wanted to be a singer.
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There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
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Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music.
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Time is the wisest counselor of all.
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Rock and roll kind of screwed up my voice poetically. I found myself having this 'Beat' voice in my poems. It was like this self-fulfilled prophecy because everybody was calling me this rock poet, this Beat poet.
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A man in music, as one in love, either lives it or talks about it; seldom both.
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The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.
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Everybody has a mean streak in them, don't they?
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I believe the important thing is to continue to create new experiences. That's why so many retired people travel. New experiences raise our consciousness and stimulate cognition. Retirement offers the opportunity to learn new things, and that is what keeps you young, at heart at least.
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I've never been one to chase awards or anything like that, to be honest.
