Up Quotes
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There is no reason why a guitar player makes the guitar-playing faces. It doesn't help you play guitar. You've not improved your skills. It's because you're up onstage, and the natural inclination is to put on a show. The rock guy faces are just as much of a front or a show as us wearing crazy makeup. It's just a different scale.
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When you haven't met someone, regardless of whether they're an author or not, when you're taking their work, and you are in some way filtering it or interpreting it, of course there's potential for them to feel that you have, in some way, not lived up to what it could have been.
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I'm always flattered when the Leprechauns are listed in these 'Top Tens' of horror characters among Freddy Kruger and Jason, which were the characters I grew up 'admiring,' if that's the right word.
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Sometimes I get so wrought up being brushed, poked and pinned all day.
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In terms of fashion, I love adding a fun scarf to whatever I'm wearing - it's a great way to dress up a plain outfit!
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I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.
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I think it's really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you're going to do.
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I never gave up on music, and I feel like music never gave up on me.
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I was extremely curious growing up. I taught myself how to sew, French braid, and cook. When I wasn't creating things with my hands, I was learning more about tech. I was experimenting with email at nine, had my first cell phone at 13, and was truly obsessed with the Internet as a teenager.
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I woke up in Australia almost every day for the first 47 years of my life. When I left, I didn't discard that, didn't reject that, didn't forget that. Not even New York City can wipe that out.
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There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.
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We're living in extraordinary times, all the time. The issues that assail us are perennial. They haven't changed since the Greeks picked up a pen.
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I love video games. When I was growing up, video games were very important to me.
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So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.
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I know when my father travelled 5,000 miles to make his home in Ireland, I doubt he ever dreamed that his son would one day grow up to be its leader.
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Life is about challenges and how we face up to them and the attitude we take into every day life so hopefully we'll be able to motivate people to do more with their life.
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You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.
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Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.
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I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.
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Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
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Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting ways to wrap each gift.
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I'm just not willing to give up on myself. If I'm going to fail, then I want to fail to the limits of my talent.
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People who go into show business are screwed up.
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Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two worlds didn't mix. When I brought my guitar back to school after Thanksgiving break, a friend handed me his bass and said, 'Listen to the Ramones.'
