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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Being a man with a conscience I simply felt that I had to do something - anything! - about the world we live in.
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All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.
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We always get lumped into that whole '80s thing, but we were never a part of it. For a start, we weren't even from America. And anything that those bands did, they only did because we started it off. That's the only thing that we can be attached to the blame of.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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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.
