Geoff Tate Quotes
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
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In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
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I want to be my own person.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
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What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
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You never toot your own horn.
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I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.
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I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
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You have to think, when I was growing up Internet was a thing but no one had it. We didn't have it at the house, so music was not accessible at your fingertips. Whatever you had in your CD player was what you had, and a CD was $15.99 and if you weren't 18 years old, it couldn't have any cuss words on it. Now it is so accessible.
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Go ahead without me, I'll find my own way.
