Lawrence Timmons Quotes
I can't get carried away with having a good time because everyone, especially the young guys, have to know there's a time and place for everything.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
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I made the big turnaround in the early Nineties when I started hearing all the tenth generation punk bands like Green Day and Offspring and all those people. It just made me fall in love with punk again and remember my roots, and since that time I've always wanted to do more of that kind of music again.
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People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they're good at keeping the sun off your neck and face.
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For every role, you have to always find a different way to approach it, one that's specific and suits what the key is. Every role's a mystery. I think if you know what it is, you probably shouldn't even do it.
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Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
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I can't get carried away with having a good time because everyone, especially the young guys, have to know there's a time and place for everything.
