Eminem Quotes
How many retards'll listen to me and run up in the school shootin' when they're pissed at the teacher? 'Her? Him? Is it you? Is it them?' 'Wasn't me, Slim Shady said to do it again!'
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People take things so seriously.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was just incredible. He's such a soulful, kind guy, and he gives great advice. And he also scares me a lot. He does a lot of pranks.
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Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.
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We've got to start making people uncomfortable in themselves and not being comfortable being racist or homophobic or any of that. We've got to cut that out from the inside.
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All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff.
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My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.' But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.
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I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.
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I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
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How many retards'll listen to me and run up in the school shootin' when they're pissed at the teacher? 'Her? Him? Is it you? Is it them?' 'Wasn't me, Slim Shady said to do it again!'
