"I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket."

-- Lou Reed

#Buckets Quotes

“Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.”
“Everybody deserves a fresh start every once in a while.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.”
“I think, oddly, that the world of the amateur is quite self-contained, and it depends on "likes" from other amateurs to perpetuate itself. Of course an awful lot of my colleagues are involved with Instagram - they get likes and dislikes, maybe just likes, I don't know - but I think that it's far less self-contained, the world I work in. It goes off in different directions, and is dependent on responses different from a tick or a like or whatever.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I'm not girly girly enough to care how I look on TV, or if I'm wearing the correct make up.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In the first act, you get the audience's attention - once you have it, they will repay you in the second. Play through the laughs if you have to. It will only make the audience believe there are so many of them that they missed a few.”
“Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.”
“I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art.”

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