Pat Barrett Quotes
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
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I'm a rock singer, but I love soul, I love blues, and I love theatrical stuff, too, like theatrical rock like Queen and Meat Loaf.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.
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The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'
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The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.
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I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
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Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
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There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
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With solos, I don't like to be too prepared going in - I like to surprise myself.
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A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.
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If you're not willing to work, you're never going to be able to experience the American Dream.
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I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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We all have obstacles. The feeling of satisfaction comes by overcoming something.
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I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.
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Such a wild feeling! Brand new live album called “Canvas and Clay” out now.
