I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.
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Related If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER Nowadays, it's hard to find the best horror and to be interesting and to be afraid of it! DEYTH BANGER Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE You are an adult and you don't understand me and what are the differences between the adult and the ... DEYTH BANGER You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson... DEYTH BANGER If you don't think it. You'll never do it! ANTHONY T. HINCKS It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN He never seemed to get tired. Always first up and ready to move on. Never afraid of what lay ahead. ERIN HUNTER It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL Let's don't do it again and again, posting the same, saying the same and the same. It's pointless! 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MICHELLE RICHARDSON In 'Guild Wars 2,' the dragons are the greatest threat, but there's so much more going o... JEFF GRUBB I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy. HENRY ROLLINS Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens... CHRIS CORNELL I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding th... DAVID CRONENBERG I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in pr... KEVIN GATES As I make my way through, I feel okayness reaching through me. The funny thing is that okayness... MARKUS ZUSAK There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it&... 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ELLEN WONG Do. Then talk. In that order. SOTERO M LOPEZ II If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you. Either you just let the grudge go, or mak... TOBA BETA I don't aspire to be a sex icon, I don't know why anyone would. It's an uncomfortable po... BILLY HOWLE To be honest, relationships with the opposite sex are the most challenging things I've done. You... DIANE LANE We have demagogues on all sides of the political spectrum. It's not helpful. It's destructiv... RON JOHNSON I have no deep-seated desire to be famous; that's not what's driving me, so if it's some... CAM I feel comfortable here primarily because I think Los Angeles is made up of people who don't com... MATTHEW RHYS I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's of... OLIVIA THIRLBY I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I&... 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LIONEL TRILLING People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment. LIONEL SHRIVER It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief LIONEL TRILLING On a personal note, I think it won't be until after I've retired that I'm fully aware of... LIONEL MESSI I've been a Republican all my life because I embrace the conservative values of hard work, perso... LIONEL SOSA When comparing 100 years of experience to 1, there is a way to close the gap. One must simply unders... LIONEL SUGGS Experience teaches is such a lovely saying. However, when people try not to make the mistakes of wha... LIONEL SUGGS Wisdom isn't built on experience; it's built on reason... LIONEL SUGGS The secrets of the universe aren't really secrets. It's just that humanity is too subjugated by thei... LIONEL SUGGS I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open s... LIONEL BLUE Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was... LIONEL BLUE I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford. LIONEL BLUE To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows i... LIONEL SUGGS When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren'... LIONEL SUGGS People lie to adapt... LIONEL SUGGS I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people t... LIONEL SUGGS Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. Whi... LIONEL SHRIVER What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I... LIONEL BLUE I still go to a Christian priory for retreats. LIONEL BLUE The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity b... LIONEL BLUE If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future. LIONEL SUGGS When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece...in order to win. LIONEL SUGGS To withdraw isn't a sign of weakness... It is a sign that a man knows the limits of his capabilities... LIONEL SUGGS If you drop assumptions, and can anticipate the possibilities, you can master the art of strategy. H... LIONEL SUGGS