Henry Rollins Quotes
Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define you character.
Quotes to Explore
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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My characters hope for better lives.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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I don't believe in God.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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There's nothing good about divorce.
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If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.
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I long to be free-desperately free. Free as the stillborn are free.
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Her one serious failing was that she could not write above love. She could not write a story with more than one important character in it, whom she thought of for the moment as herself; with love there had to be at least two important characters.
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Breathing is always key in any character. When you have a character with no voice, that makes it even more important.
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'Save the Date' feels like a quiet story about two sisters and the men in their lives, kind of reminiscent of the quieter rom-coms of the 1990s; it's very character-driven and not as wedding-focused.
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Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define you character.
