Alice Cooper Quotes
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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I can only control what I can control.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
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I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.
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I was a guy who showed up for work and took the chance for finding out whether I could do it or not... I'd like to think I made my success not at the expense of anyone. Success was accidental.
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It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.
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If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.
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I started doing stand-up in college.
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Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of having done something full and luminous, and suddenly, when you see it on the screen, it's turned back into a tiny little thing.
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The cost of money rises dramatically if you can't afford to keep it in a bank.
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If Oak Flat were a Christian holy site or, for that matter, Jewish or Muslim, no senator who wished to remain in office would dare to sneak a backdoor deal for its destruction into a spending bill - no matter what mining-company profits or jobs might result. But this is Indian religion.
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Make that money run like honey on your tongue.
