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Tom Waits

I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
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Act Actor Difference Myself
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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Allow Fact Myself People Rumor Yourself
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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Floor Machine Myself Pieces
I’ve been riding on the crest of a slump lately.
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Late Myself Ride
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.
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Love Relationship Romantic Star Yourself
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We’re all looking at the wrapping. But we won’t tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
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Ideas Insect Lying Myself See
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
You’ve gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.
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Known Trust Yourself
For a songwriter, you don’t really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they’re made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.
TOM WAITS

Learning Listening Oneself Song Wonder Writing
There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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Beautiful Business Career Death Show Yourself

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