"Every American wants a clean slate, but nobody wants to lose what they've got."

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Rob Sheffield

#Want Quotes #Clean Slate Quotes

“Weave me a rope from this dark despair, from this dull-eyed pain... Weave me a rope from this endless night, from this distant shore... Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.”

Source : Matt Cameron, Tim Finn (2009). “Poor Boy”
“If I switch showrunners and I get to stay on the show, I approach it like it's their show, and I'm here to write their music for them.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I love to meet the fans. I just get embarrassed with those who weep. I don't know what to do or what to say. It's a very embarrassing situation.”
“Sometimes I smoked opium. And I also took LSD - for a while, quite a lot of LSD, in fact. But I never had any bad experiences. I stopped in 1985. I'd had enough, and I don't miss it, either.”
“I've lost some friends. A lot of the girls.”
“I felt really compromised. I think legal marriage is unnecessary and I would not have formalised the relationship [with husband Peter Davis] except for going into Parliament. I have always railed against it privately.”
“Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body.”
“Question the Chestnuts. Chestnuts: the new name for boobs? No. NO. Why would you even say that? Get your mind out of the gutter. No, by "chestnuts" I mean, "those old pieces of writing advice that you hear as common refrain." 'Write what you know.' 'Adverbs give Baby Jesus hemorrhoids.' 'If you write a prologue, an orphan loses his sight.' All the "old saws" need to be put on the chopping block.”

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