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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.

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
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Death Drive Man Trust Yourself
New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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End Force Surreal Yourself
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
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Lying Myself Talk Truth
Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Air Interest Song
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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People Scare Success Yourself
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
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
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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Away Big Small
And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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Death Earth Myself Scream
On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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Funny Grave Myself Sick
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.
TOM WAITS

Brave Conjuring Invitation Room Writing Yourself

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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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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