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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

Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell ’em to do that, they’ll find a little pot of gold.
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Break Finding Stay Window
Don’t you know there ain’t no devil, it’s just god when he’s drunk.
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Devil Drink God Himself Known
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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Blind Imagination Myself Need Reality Requirement
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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Drive Nature Roar Yourself
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
I’ve lost my equilibrium, my car keys, and my pride.
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Balance Car Myself Pride
When you’re writing‚ you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual‚ and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.
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Brave Conjuring Invitation Room Writing Yourself
I don’t think that you should be perfectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates considerable personal problems.
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Detail Intimate Myself Perfection Problem Thinking
I did my time in the jail of your arms.
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Arms Time Yourself
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I’m a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
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Appreciation Greatness Music Myself Vocabulary
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Food High Myself Table Trade
Well you say that it’s gospel, But I know that it’s only church.
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Gospel Myself Religious Yourself
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
A mental midget with the IQ of a fence post.
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Dumb Intelligence Mental
I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.
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Hear Ideas Myself Wrong
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train

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