Tim McIlrath Quotes
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By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
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I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is wonderful.
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I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit of a soap opera, and it's a character study of this character, Walt Longmire, and the people around him.
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The Indonesian brands aren't interested in sports people, only movie stars, because they can get more exposure in the media.
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I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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One of my favorite films is 1994's 'Little Women', with Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst.
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I feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I just want to go to learn about what is interesting to me and learn about the classes that you don't really get to take in high school because you have to take the basics.
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Opera is given so little attention in the national press.
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As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.
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If you want to see great mixed martial arts, tune in when I fight. If you want to see drama and all of that stuff, you guys can go watch 'Bachelors in Paradise.' They'll give you enough drama you can want to watch.
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People often talk about the characters in books as if they were considering whom to invite to a dinner party. 'Oh, I just hated her - she was so mean.' 'He's a bully; I didn't like how he treated his mother.'
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To do a 'Bond' picture is a blessing but also a curse.
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I think that every band, whether they admit it or not, is going out there to succeed. I've always worn that on my sleeve.
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I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
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I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.
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A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.
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I think it's clear that women are treated terribly, and people are allowed to say horrible things about us.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only working on the stuff that our school gave us - well, I was, because I go to a public school.
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First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.
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Your lexicon is not entitled to slurs; it's time to retire them.
