Lloyd Dorfman Quotes
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I found a sand dollar there.
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I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of my records and establishing myself as a songwriter is super-important to me. Some people have that gift, where they can take on anything and make people believe it. I like to do a song from personal experience.
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One of my biggest sources of angst is having people so comfortable with a formula that works that they are not challenging themselves or their ideas.
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People travel because it's a treat. For me, staying at home is a treat.
