Captain Beefheart Quotes
I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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I realized, 'Oh, it's easier to get what I want if I embrace the sex symbol thing.' Microphones are more in my face, and I can say things about the kids that I mentor and open more access to more doors.
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I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.
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There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.
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I naturally want to be provocative.
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The best thing about being immensely wealthy is not having to be in any particular place at any particular time doing a particular task you don't want to do.
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The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
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I want to play in the WBC. That was one of my goals to represent my country.
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I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
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I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going to lead every parade.'
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Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one.
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It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem. Every one of these States had slaves, and at the beginning of Washington's Administration, there were 40,000 black slaves and 17,000 black freemen in this section.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
