Alice Cooper Quotes
I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" is pretty clever.
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Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.
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All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.
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For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is involve my senses: I notice the smells; I open the trash cans and look at what people have thrown away.
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I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
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In the 1930s and the 1940s, we set up the FHA. We set up the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. We set up specific bureaus to make our communities look the way they look.
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Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
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Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.
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When I look at a film, I don't think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that' because I haven't done that role, so it doesn't matter.
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You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.
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Publishing is not my world.
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I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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I want to get up at 6 A.M. and go swimming and do 30 lengths.
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I think for an artist it's really important to have experiences, and I've had a lot of those. It's definitely inspired my lyrics and my style, even down to what I wear.
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I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other.
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I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
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It's fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh.
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I'm not crazy about country-western music. But the lyrics are good. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" is pretty clever.
