Washed Out Quotes
The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
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If I could say this I wouldn't have to paint.
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I've probably got lots of heroes. One is a chap called Charles Campbell - he is a wonderful chap. We cooked together in a nightclub in Notting Hill. He told me brilliant stories of food and life and generally put me on the right track.
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My apartment is full of antique pieces, but I put everything together like a modern installation.
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A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.
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I stand for the Midwest. That's why the album's titled 'M.O.,' 'cause I'm still holding it down like that. My friends and family all call me Mo, so it's kind of like really representing where I'm from and me at the same time.
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The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.
