Tommy Stinson Quotes
There was a game that had to be played that had nothing to do with music and everything to do with stroking someone else and f—ing doing the whole song and dance that was completely foreign and, quite frankly, illegal to us.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
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I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
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I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.
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I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.
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Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.
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It's nice to look out and see your family supporting you.
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I think they find it - they find me quite confusing, because - they know the music, but they don't know anything about me ... because I keep a very private lifestyle so they end up ... making up stories as such. But I don't really concern myself too much about them.
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Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's an assumption that modernity is a product simply of competition, markets and technology. It is not. It is also shaped equally by history and culture. China is not like the West, and it will not become like the West.
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There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.
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Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.
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There was a game that had to be played that had nothing to do with music and everything to do with stroking someone else and f—ing doing the whole song and dance that was completely foreign and, quite frankly, illegal to us.
