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 think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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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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Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.
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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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If you don't know what you want, don't say you never had a chance.
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God never does anything according to what you want. It's never your will. It's His will.
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I want you to understand the words. I want you taste the words. I want you to love the words. Because the words are important. But they're only words. You leave them on the paper and you take the thoughts and put them into your mind and then you as an actor recreate them, as if the thoughts had suddenly occurred to you.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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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.