Tom Waits Quotes

If you are making a record, you are the one saying 'action', and you are the one saying 'cut,' and you have to be sure that the most interesting thing is not going on outside the frame.

Tom Waits

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I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.

Jesmyn Ward

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Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.

John Lydon

BestWorldFaceSingerAnything

I'm generally more and more in my comfort zone in the wild.

Tom Felton

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Marriage is becoming sort of fake. It's almost like a handbag. Everybody wants the newest, greatest and latest. It becomes an event, and it's definitely a status symbol in our society. I'm not saying it shouldn't be; it absolutely should be - but you shouldn't be focusing on that.

Rob Lowe

MarriageSocietySayingFakeYou

I really believe the only way to stay healthy is to eat properly, get your rest and exercise. If you don't exercise and do the other two, I still don't think it's going to help you that much.

Mike Ditka

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I think I look for a muse in women. Someone I can just picture in my mind. Someone who respects herself and others. It isn't so much the things she says, it's mainly what she does. That's what make her all the more beautiful.

JC Chasez

WomenBeautifulMindThinkPicture

I turn to the 'Telegraph's' obituaries page with trepidation.

Christopher Lee

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You shouldn't eat anything new on race days. Eat simple foods, and ones that you can easily digest.

Alistair Brownlee

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Thomas Fuller

GoodFriendGood FriendRelation

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

Nydia Velazquez

RelationshipPowerSideOftenToo

Really, every day is the perfect day to boss up. Every day that you wake up is a perfect day to boss up. It's all about continuing to put one foot in front of the next. That's what it's about. Whatever you think you're going through, just put one foot in front of the next.

Rick Ross

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I'm looking for little movies that are good instead of picking scripts in pursuit of superstardom.

Marisa Coughlan

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