Washed Out Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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Actors don't have real value.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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I eat my feelings - when I'm happy, when I'm sad.
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The books you read as a young person are books that stay with you forever. I think that is the biggest privilege of writing for young people. You feel like you can help shape somebody.
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No one actually knows how popular you are or how people think of you until and unless a few of the people who like your work walk up to you and let you know that you are really good. You can see the honesty in their eyes.
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You could make the most beautiful film, and that weekend it's raining too hard on the East Coast, and no one goes out. Artists should have a chance to do it again. That's the challenge: Women artists don't get a second chance. People-of-color artists don't get a second chance. You're put in director's jail, and that's a wrap.
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Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
