Tommy James Quotes
Songs Like Mony Mony aren't really written, they're sort of hanging in space - waiting to be found - I'm just thankful we found this one.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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I turned down a lot of films.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
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The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It's simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.
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Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.
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It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day...
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They come to have a party for themselves, and we're kind of a house band for their party.
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Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
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It doesn't matter what background you come from; it doesn't matter what your circumstances are - you can survive.
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In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write a story about the guy who made it to the top, but the middle is so much more interesting, so much more murky.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
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Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.
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Songs Like Mony Mony aren't really written, they're sort of hanging in space - waiting to be found - I'm just thankful we found this one.
