Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
You don't love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't love me. You love who you think I am. And don't pretend that you know me. Because I don't even know myself.
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
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That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.
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I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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Live your life so that you’ll have no regrets. No matter how hard, no matter how sad, if something is precious to you, protect it with both arms.
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You don't love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't love me. You love who you think I am. And don't pretend that you know me. Because I don't even know myself.
