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As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.
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To maintain our economic and national security, we must maximize all of our nation's energy resources, including renewable sources, alternative fuels, and fossil fuels, all in a way that balances economic development and protecting our environment.
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Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.
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We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.
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When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.
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Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
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That he loved her was his life’s greatest grace—that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare.
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The songs I was writing still had lyrics or sentiments that didn't match what I was feeling. It was old, negative energy coming out of me still, but it needed to all get out so I could trash those songs and put them in the bin. And then I was able to let the new songs out.
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Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears!
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My style also has a lot to do with theater because often I'm imagining I'm a character who is wandering by a wall and leaves a mark. Then I'm someone else, who 10 days later leaves another mark. Someone was angry and did this, and then someone came and painted over it, and then the sun bleached it out and the weather exposed it again.
