Doug Fieger (Douglas Lars Fieger) Quotes
We never paid to play, but we never got paid either, except for the very last set of gigs we did at The Starwood. We finally got paid. It was a Christmas weekend. We got paid fairly well I remember. The place was packed, but that was the only time we made a dime.
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I'm a huge gamer. I play a lot of games, and I play one game until I'm really, really good at it.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
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Sometimes I just crave to play in Shakespeare again and I know and love playing Orlando so much.
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I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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I love to play music.
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I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.
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I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
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I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a sudden, the preparations made for the celebration put pressure on me. I said, 'Okay, I have to get there.' After 2,130, there was sort of a realization it was a foregone conclusion you're going to play tomorrow.
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When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.
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We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.
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I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.
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When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.
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It's harder to play drums than guitar, physically. I'm always kind of on the edge. I guess that's how I play everything: on the edge of my ability.
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Only in a novel are all things given full play.
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I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.
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It's not what you do, but HOW you do it. Because in the end everyone knows almost as much, just not the same way.
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The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out of the spring and sings while combing her dripping long hair, which makes a sound sweeter than a violin. It is a song of perdition for whomever hears it. There is no sign of the Cross, no "Our Father" to save him. Her curse takes him like a fish in a net and the Mistress of the Water awaits him on the edge of the spring and smiles upon him and tells him to follow her to the depths, from which he will never return.
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There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.
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I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?
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We never paid to play, but we never got paid either, except for the very last set of gigs we did at The Starwood. We finally got paid. It was a Christmas weekend. We got paid fairly well I remember. The place was packed, but that was the only time we made a dime.
