Randy Houser Quotes
I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.
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A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
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It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.
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All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.
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Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I'd be the chief minister.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things.
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I never exercise, and I eat everything.
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I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.
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I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.
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I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.
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Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.
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What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
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I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.
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On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?
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Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.
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As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this.
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The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods, is over.
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It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.
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I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.
