Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes

That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.

Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam

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• I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.

  

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• I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

  

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• A dead end street is a good place to turn around.

  

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• I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

  

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• Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.

  

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• I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.

  

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• I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.

  

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• I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

  

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• I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.

  

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• No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

  

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• Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

  

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• I live to leave somebody with a positive experience when they've met me, and make someone smile for the day.

  

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• I just ended up focusing on film editing as I was getting my career started. I'm very passionate about editing and will continue to edit for the rest of my career, but it's not like that was all I did and then somehow I grew into directing a movie.

  

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• That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Work
  • Song
  • Tough