Jimi Hendrix Quotes
Sometimes the music people put you into these big, rush things.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I lost about 60 pounds. I don't really have a moment specifically that made me do it. I remember little things, like, when I was in Japan, I remember looking around at the portion sizes of a fast food restaurant and being like, 'Well, this has something to do with it.' Americans definitely eat too much.
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And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.
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I like to do Pilates.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.
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There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.
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Acting was always something I loved doing, but I didn't know that I would pursue it professionally. I really loved doing plays at school, but I was in a rock band and ended up going to a school for music.
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Women's music is underrepresented.
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My high school didn't have a football team; we just had like a surf team, because I grew up in Encinitas, California, which is the ultimate place where everyone skated or surfed, so it was a very different culture. It was, like, cool to be the art kid.
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In Tulsa, it was sports or nothing.
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Normally, if I've got an audition, I'm punctual, I've learnt my lines, and I'll go looking smart.
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When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.
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Never waste a crisis.
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I had a really complicated relationship with acting for a long time.
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You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.
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I look back at 'Saturday Night Live' and I think, some people didn't like me doing 'Weekend Update.' Who cares? A lot of people did. When you're reaching that many people, you're not going to have everybody like you.
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My wife and I have been together since 1986. I graduated in '86 and she graduated in '88. We began dating when she was 17. Actually she turned 18 when we started kissing and stuff.
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I write instead of going to the shrink!
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I’d been warned in advance, so I’d given it some thought. When it was my turn and I stood up and called for life, liberty and peace and managed to sit down before I added a hard-boiled egg to the list.
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For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.
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Sometimes the music people put you into these big, rush things.
