I do some acting. And there’s a difference between “I do some acting” and “I’m an actor.”
TOM WAITSWhen 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.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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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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Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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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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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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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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There’s no prayer like desire.
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The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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And the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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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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