Adam Jones Quotes
When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs.
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Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
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Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
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Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
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We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.
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I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
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I was born with an evil face.
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With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
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It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.
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I would really like to do a movie. Schedule-wise I don't know when exactly, but I think it would be great to do a Portlandia movie. Some of my favorite television shows have done it and they've been great. Like Monty Python. I think it would be great.
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I couldn't believe that Donald Trump won. I couldn't believe that we elected an orangutan to front the country.
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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
