Dada Vaswani Quotes
People need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them.
Quotes to Explore
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.
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One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.
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Coming out of Dallas and doing commercial work in Dallas - if you had improv background in Dallas, then you were instantly shot to the top of the list of commercial bookings because they loved improvisers because you could elevate the material.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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I think most actors feel an obligation to do right by the people they're playing.
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One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
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People need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them.
