Christos Tsiolkas famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In the three minutes it takes the song to play I'm caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly ecstatic joy, where the aching longing to be somewhere else, out of this city, out of this country, out of this body and out of this life, is kept at bay.
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Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.
-- Christos Tsiolkas
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Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.
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I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.
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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
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I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.
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That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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If you want something to play with go find yourself a toy, baby, my time is too expensive and I'm not a little boy.
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I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
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When you're writing a movie or a play and writing isn't going well, which is for me the normal condition - it's an exceptional day when suddenly I've got something and it's going well - you can call the studio or the producer or whoever is waiting for it and say, "I know I said I was going to have it in by the end of the summer.
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Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,
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