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Tom Waits

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
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
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
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Bad Destroy Hell Ourselves Place Suffering World Writing
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
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Absorb Willing Yourself
Living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time. Things are falling over and breaking and spilling. If you live on the second story, you really have to keep the windows shut all the time.
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Break Children Fall Live Time Window Yourself
When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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Age Myself Old Quite Young
The blues is like a planet. It’s an enormous topic. You can’t ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It’s a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don’t know where I would be. It’s indelible and indispensable.
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Culture Known Music Myself Planet Topic
I’m trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It’s like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.
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Alive Hands Ideas Music Time Yourself
I admit that I ain’t no angel, I admit that I ain’t no saint – I’m selfish and I’m cruel and I’m blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they’re so hard to find.
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Angel Blind Finding Hard Myself Selfish
I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left.
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Inspirational Myself Poor Reach Start
There’s a beauty of show business. It’s the only business you can have a career in when you’re dead.
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Beautiful Business Career Death Show Yourself
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
If there’s one thing you can say about mankind, there’s nothing kind about man.
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Cruelty Kind Man Oneself

All that you’ve loved is all you own.

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