Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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Remember daydreams? No, of course you don't. How could you? Three new text messages have just arrived, and another three, in a moment, will go out.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
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A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
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If we are utopists, leave us with our utopias so long as they induce action, so long as they are motivating.
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Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.
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Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.
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A general charge of crony capitalism is easy to make. But dividing the 'bad' crony capitalists from the 'good' innovative entrepreneurs is much harder to do. And sorting them out without creating a new group of crony capitalists may be the hardest thing of all.
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I would do anything to be around music. You don't even have to pay me.
