John Tempesta Quotes
A lot of drummers, obviously they want to show off and do all these fills and everything, but the main objective is to play for the song.
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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My body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline. I've tried explaining to my stomach that this is entirely unnecessary: I've never once, not even when I was in college and more broke than the E.U., done any actual starving.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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Over the years, I've learnt from co-actors, directors, technicians, and even from junior artists.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.
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What musicals need is a new me.
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We can not underestimate the potential harm North Korea's capabilities can cause for the rest of the world.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.
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I would love to play 'Wonder Woman'; I have the abilities and the strength because I am definitely not the typical Hollywood actress.
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I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'
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Especially when you talk about the power of documentary filmmaking, you can't really have a slant; financially, you can't have a slant on the end goals.
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When you live closely with people, you don't see who they really are. In particular, with nannies, they only exist in your home, and when they leave, they don't really exist anymore for you.
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A lot of drummers, obviously they want to show off and do all these fills and everything, but the main objective is to play for the song.
