Tyler Joseph Quotes
There was a lot of pressure to find a genre and stick to it. People would tell me all the time, 'You can't be all things to everyone.' I would say, 'I'm not trying to be! I'm being what I want to be for myself.'
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My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans and bring wins to the Chicago Blackhawks.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
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With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was reading for something else.
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
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My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.
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I use music to focus, like an internal motor.
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There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.
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I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
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I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
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I'm not getting within 20 feet of a married man ever again - not even talking to one!
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I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.
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We came from a small town where there was no music scene or no other bands, and we decided to put ours together and go for it.
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Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.
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There was a lot of pressure to find a genre and stick to it. People would tell me all the time, 'You can't be all things to everyone.' I would say, 'I'm not trying to be! I'm being what I want to be for myself.'
