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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

I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride
I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.
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Affect Audience Believe Important Myself Way
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.
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Learning Listening Oneself Song Wonder Writing
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
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Live Myself
Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me – choke those little bad days. Choke ’em down to nothing.
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Bad Day Growth Plant Yourself
You’re innocent when you dream.
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Dreams Innocence Yourself
But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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Afraid Conversation Death Live Music Telephone
I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch.
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Alcohol Blood Myself
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound
You know, we just buy music now. We don’t make it any more. And that goes for just about everything. I think it’s so important that people develop and subscribe to and have confidence in their own ability to make music, however rough it is.
TOM WAITS

Ability Confidence Important Music Rough Thinking Yourself
Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.
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Kill Kiss Myself See
The piano has been drinking, not me.
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Drink Funny Instrument Myself Piano
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
TOM WAITS

Angel Devil Myself
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
TOM WAITS

Action Style Way Yourself
They say that I have no hits and that I’m difficult to work with. And they say that like it’s a bad thing.
TOM WAITS

Bad Difficult Myself Work
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself

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

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

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