Ed Weeks Quotes
My mom speaks English - she moved to England in the '70s, so she's fluent in English. We use to speak in Spanish when I was a kid all the time, me and my mom. But when I went to boarding school, I kind of lost it a little bit.
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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My coach is pushing me harder than ever to make sure I stay at a good level.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
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People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
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I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.
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I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
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Edible Arrangements will have to beat back some rivals, including a handful of mom-and-pop vendors and a company in Pennsylvania called Incredibly Edible Delites. And there's always the chance that a deep-pocketed national florist like FTD will decide that pretty produce is profitable and jump into the mix.
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Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.
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Getting chronic Lyme disease is probably the fastest way to figure out what and who is real in your life.
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My style icon really for my whole life has been my mother.
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I think America just needs to get real when it comes to the way our kids speak and communicate. They need to understand what happens in rap.
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My mom speaks English - she moved to England in the '70s, so she's fluent in English. We use to speak in Spanish when I was a kid all the time, me and my mom. But when I went to boarding school, I kind of lost it a little bit.
