Eliot Sumner Quotes
It stresses me out writing songs,; I get really super nervous and speedy. I feel like I'm possessed.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able to get in and out of Bitcoin. You need to have a liquid exchange on either end of the corridor.
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You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.
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The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's, in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.
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All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
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There's this message to comedians in particular, that you shouldn't write it, and a television writer should write it. And that's a prevailing conventional wisdom that I think is really wrong. That's not to say that television writers aren't great, but I think that the belief that some comedy writer's going to be able to capture your voice is naive.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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It stresses me out writing songs,; I get really super nervous and speedy. I feel like I'm possessed.
