Henry Rollins Quotes
You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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But the working I would always want to do.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
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Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
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Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said 'The what of a what?' which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.
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In 1956, the success of the Hammer films kick-started my career. That immediately gave me a name and a face to go with it. I will always be grateful to Hammer for that.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.
