Janet Weiss Quotes

Don't get too caught up in the typical ideas of what makes a good drummer. Those things are sort of unattainable, and they're not always creatively your most useful things to know.

Janet Weiss

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GoodIdeasKnowDrummerAlwaysUp

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

Meg Cabot

EffortYouMoreWriteJustYour

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

John Lydon

MeSocietyYouHonestHorribleJust

Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, like, 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.

Robert Glasper

MusicMediaAttentionJazzWhyPay

People who work in diamonds and in oil wreck a lot of the Earth and a lot of the people on it.

Stephen McHattie

WorkPeopleDiamondsEarthOilWho

Steel is needed everywhere.

Rodrigo Duterte

SteelEverywhereNeeded

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

Mary Wortley Montagu

CivilityNothingEverythingCosts

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

Michael Nesmith

WordsValueThoughtUnderstandWay

If I could make a device where people could just intuit everything you are thinking - a little cable you plug into, like, a USB port, I would make a billion dollars.

Mindy Kaling

PeopleThinkingYouEverythingPort

I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive.

Devon Aoki

MeDriveProfessionalTeachingStunt

Punk rock wasn't a career choice. It was a hobby that we did for fun. We never thought we'd get as big as our idols in T.S.O.L. or certainly not the Ramones.

Dexter Holland

FunThoughtHobbyCareerChoiceBig

I have the deepest respect for Terrence Malick and greatly enjoyed helping him on 'Tree of Life.' I consider him to be a good personal friend and professional contemporary.

Douglas Trumbull

LifeGoodFriendRespectTreeHim

I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.

Doris Day

FamilyHeavenCousinsWonderfulGone

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