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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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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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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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Blame me for capitalism. Blame me for EpiPen.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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It can be painful leaving parts of yourself behind. Change and shuffling off your previous skin is traumatic, but it can be done.
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You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.
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The intrinsic value of woman consists essentially in exceptional receptivity for God's work in the soul, and this value comes to unalloyed development if we abandon ourselves confidently and unresistingly to this work.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
