Angus King Quotes
When people asked me in a RV park, 'What do you do?' I just said, 'I'm a retired state employee from Maine.'
Quotes to Explore
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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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 need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.
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I can't say no to my girls. They melt my heart. I'm very grateful for my family.
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What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could have landed only on the sublime. But my argument is that the sublime couldn't exist without this other half.
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Let me show you how to drive me crazy,Let me show you how to make me feel so good,Let me show you how to take me to the edge of the stars and back again.You've gotta show me how to drive you crazy,You've gotta show me all the things you wanna happen to you,We've gotta tell each other everything, we always wanted someone to do.
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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.
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When people asked me in a RV park, 'What do you do?' I just said, 'I'm a retired state employee from Maine.'
