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I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”

Tom Waits

But it’s so hard to dance that way when it’s cold and there’s no music.
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Cold Dance Hard Music Way
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.
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Capture End Feature Song Writing
Oh, I’m not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.
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Funny Instrument Musician Myself
There’s always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
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Advice Deep Food Freedom Trap
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.
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Eyes Movie Song Thinking
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
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Devil God Sleep World
I was always laughing in church.
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Laughter Myself Religious
Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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Brain Built Drive Himself Road Specialist Vision Willing
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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Best Better Care Children Growth Oneself
Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
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Dreams Memories Remember Train Yourself
The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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Career Family Night Trick Yourself

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