Henry Rollins Quotes
Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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The devil made me do it.
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There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
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I invite people to read the hundreds of positive articles instead of getting affected by the occasional outburst from a troll.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.
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I never go wild with nails.
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My favorite sequels are basically all Mike Myers films - 'Wayne's World 2,' 'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,' 'Shrek 2.' Anything he does, it's best the second time around. He needs to do 'So I Married an Axe Murderer 2.'
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Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.
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Even today, people tell me that the slapstick humour in 'Friends' is the most viewed comedy track on television. Siddique knows the art of mixing slapstick with genuine humour.
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I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.
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Let me show you the work of the humble. Listen.
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The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.
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I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.
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There's so little difference between television and features as far as you make the film. I mean, you have less money and it's a little quicker, but the concept is all on television.
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Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.
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Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.
