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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Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.
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I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.
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Claire. Wake up.” She blinked and realized that her head was on Shane’s shoulder, and Michael was nowhere to be seen. Her first thought was, Oh my God, am I drooling? Her second was that she hadn’t realized she was so close to him, snuggled in. Her third was that although Michael’s part of the couch was empty, Shane hadn’t moved away. And he was watching her with warm, friendly eyes. Oh. Oh, wow, that was nice.
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Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior of large portions of the youth population in the United States today.
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The artist is the bearer of life.
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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.
