Tom DeLonge (Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr.) Quotes
We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later on. Look at people who are working nine-to-five jobs out of college, and look at professional skateboarders or guys in punk bands. See who's having more fun.
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There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
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I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
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The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
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It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
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'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, 'If you be yourself, you can do whatever you want,' and it's sort of a fun message.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
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It was really fun working with Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz on set.
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
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I'd love the opportunity to do something where I could really give my opinion, my feisty side - it'd be fun!
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I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.
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I think a lot of actors will tell you that playing a villain can be more fun than playing the straight and narrow good guy.
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Sometimes we just go back to the hotel and sleep because we're really tired. Other times we'll be really hyped up and want to go out and do something -- basically make our own fun. Because we're all teenagers -- and you know what teenagers get up to -- we influence the older people to do teenage stunts, which is pretty funny. I won't mention any names, because we'll probably get in trouble, but we took this guy egging... like we were egging all these houses. It was too funny. Just being a hooligan, being an idiot really -- but nothing illegal.
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When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.
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I've always thought my poems told stories.
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We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later on. Look at people who are working nine-to-five jobs out of college, and look at professional skateboarders or guys in punk bands. See who's having more fun.
