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Jim Backus Quotes

I decided to try radio as a source of livelihood because I like to eat regularly.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: February 25, 1913 - July 3, 1989

Topics

Try Eat Radio Source Because Like

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

Maybe Guess Idealistic

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office.

Portrait More Office Saint Thomas

I like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them.

Guns Carry Like Around Them

I never particularly thought of myself as great with girls. I can be awkward, and I have a strange sense of humor at times. But I've also been learning to try and embrace that.

Learning Great Myself Humor Thought

Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks.

Learning Daily Lesson Repetition Kid

I have crazy, different influences in my songs. I want rap music, I want Congolese rumba, I want salsa, I want dance music, I want hip-hop music, all mixed into one!

Music Dance Crazy Want Hip-Hop Rap

I appreciate art in any form. So it applies to clothes as well. On stage, I think people prefer me in Indian outfits... in fact, it goes with the kind of songs I sing as well. Indianness in the form of a sari, or a chaniya choli or jeans with something interesting, matches my style of singing.

Style Art People Me Singing Think

I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp.

Robbie Robertson

Think Picture You Dead Your Stamp

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Impossible Achieve She Absurd Only

I've never wanted to just ride on coat tails. I don't know, if you don't earn something then it doesn't feel as good.

Good Ride Feel You Know Never

Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.

Beginning Song End Musicians Talk

On the track, you know what you're capable of, but being at the birth, you have no control.

Control You Know Birth Capable

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