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Tom Waits Quotes

The only thing worse than being in the Hall of Fame is not being in the Hall of Fame.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 7, 1949

Topics

Fame Being Only Worse Than Thing

I think that confidence is a big thing. It's being comfortable, feeling comfortable, managing your schedule.

Confidence Think Feeling Schedule

I go where the action is.

Action Go Where

Battering down solar cells on the roofs of Wal-Marts in California. I think that will be some of the highest-return investments that anyone ever makes.

Jeremy Grantham

Think Down Will California Solar

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

Positive People Capitalism Now Right

You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing his best to instantly cast himself as the big dog in the Republican pack.

Dog Love Best Texas Doing You

I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.

Coffee Day Me Writing Powerful Over

Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.

Learning Curiosity Doing Open Being

I was a timid little guy when I was a kid. I used humor as a defense; I became the class clown. But deep inside, I felt real vulnerable.

Humor Deep Class Inside Kid Real

I want to do an intelligent talk show where you have room to breathe.

You Want Intelligent Talk Breathe

The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

Christopher Eccleston

Father Mother Relationship Identity

Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.

Christopher Lambert

Feel Now Want Actor Got Because

I like new challenges.

Challenges New Like New Challenges

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