Dave Grohl Quotes

When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.

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• The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.

  

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• I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.

  

  Edmund White
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• I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.

  

  Paloma Picasso
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• It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.

  

  Zendaya
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• If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.

  

  Patrick McHenry
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• The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
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• I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

  

  Ma Jian
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• I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
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• I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Remember
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• I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

  

  Barbara Bush
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• The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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• The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Free
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• A black dress is beautiful! It's a good choice. It could be the wrong choice at certain events or situations, but it's very rare that you see a girl who looks bad in a black dress.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
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• When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

  

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• I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.

  

  Rachel Bilson
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• A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.

  

  Nathan Lane
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  • Same

• If you mess up the performance on stage, you do it again the next night. You're like alright, you let yourself off the hook, and you've got to go back in there. Whereas, with a film, I would go home and be like, "Well, I've ruined the arc of the character forever. That scene is never going to work. I know because I can never shoot it again." So, it's all miserable, but in different ways.

  

  Emma Stone
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• The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

  

  Edwin Muir
  • Life
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• It’s a great tragedy that the ability to act is used to manipulate people, but it is a greater tragedy that people welcome it while sometimes making a phony protest.

  

  Eugene J. Martin
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  • Welcome
  • Protest

• It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
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  • Uncomfortable

• When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Performance
  • Recording
  • Manipulate