Eddie Vedder (Edward Louis Severson III) Quotes
When you're inside and you have no control and when you're the 14-year-old version of Frances Farmer, you know, you have reasons to be angry. You have reasons to be angry when your parents, who are very sheltered themselves, make decisions as to what you should experience in your life and what's normal and what's not.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.
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Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
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When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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As U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico has paid their part.
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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
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I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.
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Finger-picking, in general, is a hypnotic thing. I feel like I'm more A.D.D. all the time, so the music has to be hypnotic.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.
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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
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I'm literally nowhere yet... When things started going well, this French designer called Ami gave me some shoes and clothes to wear. But when I sat down to play the piano, the very new shoes kept slipping off the pedal. So I took them off, threw them away, and have never worn shoes while playing the piano from then on.
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When you're inside and you have no control and when you're the 14-year-old version of Frances Farmer, you know, you have reasons to be angry. You have reasons to be angry when your parents, who are very sheltered themselves, make decisions as to what you should experience in your life and what's normal and what's not.
