Joe Elliott Quotes
There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?
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After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
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The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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There's a secret sauce in California, and I hope people pay attention to it.
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I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
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In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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I think when I first started out making music here in Los Angeles, a lot of people were really curious about my ethnicity, and you know, whatever questions they had, I'd be more than happy to answer them.
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But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.
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Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
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You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.
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We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.
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Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious, or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.
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There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.
