Ville Valo Quotes
Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.
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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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Christianity, Judaism and Islam all share a gospel, loosely, and it's important that we all realize that.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people.
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When I got to the stadium, one of my biggest things was watching video of hitters.
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I think when science fiction is at its worst, it's just spaceships flying around shooting at each other. There has to be a lot more going on than that... science fiction is about exploring new worlds and new ideas, not about ray guns and action, necessarily.
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Think about just exceeding expectations of every job you're being asked to do. Continually ask for feedback on how it's going. Ask everybody involved what you can do to do an even better job, and the world will beat down your door trying to ask you to do more and more.
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Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.
