Patrick Stump Quotes
I don't want names, but you have to have bumped into some pretty nasty artists with pretty big chips on their shoulders. I'd like an anecdote about the most obnoxious personality you had the misfortune of working with, albeit as anonymously as you feel comfortable divulging.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
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I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.
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I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.
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The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.
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I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.
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All artists are crazy.
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I was a big fan of Super Troopers, so working with the Broken Lizard guys was so much fun.
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I love working closely with people.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
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My biggest worry is that we have to keep making good music, and I want to do well, but I wonder if I will be able to.
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There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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And you know, I said yesterday, you know, you know, if they're not going to - if the feds aren't going to do their job, well, then, I'm up to suing the feds to make them do their job! I mean, they sued Arizona, you know, we can sue them back! I mean, they're not - they're not enforcing the laws!
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I don't want names, but you have to have bumped into some pretty nasty artists with pretty big chips on their shoulders. I'd like an anecdote about the most obnoxious personality you had the misfortune of working with, albeit as anonymously as you feel comfortable divulging.
