Henry Rollins Quotes
I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
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I want a place where I can have horses.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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If I'm preparing for something and I've got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can't assess a scene unless I'm in character, if that makes sense.
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You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.
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I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.
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Knowing that anything can happen at any time, I made sure the people that I love know that.
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My coming out, like most people's, was and is a gradual process - for no matter how out one is, there are always situations when one's with people who don't know, and one has the choice or, sometimes, the necessity of coming out to them.
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I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is still on creating an effect, not on documenting reality - so 'autobiographical,' to me, is closer in meaning to 'fiction' than 'autobiography.'
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Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.
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The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.
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The feel of music today is all techno and computerized and takes away the soul. The importance of jamming together with the group and live musicians and becoming one and being live … creating a song from scratch is the highest form of communication. It brings people together. The young artists today don’t realize what they’re sacrificing. The human touch and the human factor.
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I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.
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I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.
