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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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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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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I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
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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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The whole universe was stilled as if listening for a voice. For the space of one heartbeat there was peace on earth. For one fraction of a moment there was no deed of violence wrought on earth, no hatred, no fire, no whirlwind, no pain, no fear. Existence rested against the heart of God, then sighed and journeyed again.
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I have a very toxic combination of being completely determined, inflexible, controlling and being totally shy, guilty at hurting anyone's feelings, hypersensitive to other people's needs - and it's just paralysing.
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My stated goal as a filmmaker is to feel something. Is to have a palpable emotion in my life, carry it through the gauntlet of the filmmaking process and try and have it land for an audience at some point during the viewing experience. That to me is successful filmmaking.
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As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
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Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, and Ian MacKaye were all people who really made me see things differently.
