Tim McIlrath Quotes
And rock being a male-dominated, testosterone-driven place that I've been in the eye of the hurricane now for several years, I realized that it can be a place that can perpetuate homophobic behavior unless it's addressed by bands like us.
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I never understood the idea of canceling a show when you don't like the politics of a specific state.
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I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.
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The best way to keep water prices down is to avoid unnecessary increases in costs.
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I have learned that raising children is the single most difficult thing in the world to do. It takes hard work, love, luck, and a lot of energy, and it is the most rewarding experience that you can ever have.
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Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.
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When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being.
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It's a long road to the Derby, but I think he's got the capabilities to do it, ... He's never done anything that would make us second guess him, and hopefully we can keep on going.
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I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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You don't get the pay-off when you're playing a quiet character, so sometimes you want to just throw out all your work and say, "Okay, let me do something really funny or gimmicky, just so that I can get some attention in this scene."
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Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time, I'm having a ball.
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We went to all the local radio stations. We even went all the way down to Detroit, into Windsor.
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Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.
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I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.
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The introduction of heartache began as a child.
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There are two types of bands - there are the ones that are basically solo projects anyways, where there's clearly the one guy who's driving the ship and everyone else is just along for the ride. And then there was my band, where you have a few very disparate-taste, creative people who kind of meet in the middle somewhere.
