Damien Rice
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I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show ... RICHARD FLEESHMAN DANNY DEVITO I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was '... DAVID HASSELHOFF I will say that when I first came out to the States to work on 'Jericho,' that was the only ... LENNIE JAMES I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money ... GLENN FORD FRANK ABAGNALE But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER DEYTH BANGER I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out. IAN FRAZIER The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'Th... CARLTON CUSE The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after tha... NATALIE COLE I think my darkest days were probably when I was catering. I would go to these parties and pass out ... 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KATHARINE CORNELL I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my fam... EMMA ROBERTS I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since. HARMONY KORINE NADIA COMANECI MARK RUFFALO I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on. RAMI MALEK I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I tur... GEORGE OSBORNE LEONARD NIMOY When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents... DAVID HENRIE I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not... NATHAN FILLION LARRY HOLMES ZENDAYA J. D. SOUTHER CHARLIE PUTH When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V... VESTA WILLIAMS ROSALYNN CARTER As for 'Twin Peaks,' I'm happy to have been a part of something that was a success. The ... SHERILYN FENN I'd love to have more kids. I'm one of four, and I've always dreamed of having a huge fa... ABBEY CLANCY DAN BROWN The first time I cut all my hair off was when I was 19. I just got fed up going to the salon every w... LUPITA NYONG'O DAVE THOMAS Leadership is something I was born with. CARMELO ANTHONY LENA HEADEY DIERKS BENTLEY I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she... MAE WHITMAN BRITTANY SNOW It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody ... GARY BARLOW THOMAS GIBSON I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and ... ELLIOTT GOULD KEVIN BACON It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginab... VAL MCDERMID ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO BRYAN ADAMS The trapeze was my first love. To me, it's normal. It's all I've ever known. But when I ... NEON HITCH The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagul... CAREY MULLIGAN Before this DJ thing, I was hopelessly taking things apart to try to figure out how they worked. I&#... GRANDMASTER FLASH DEEPIKA PADUKONE JEFF BUCKLEY AARON PATZER LORDE ROB GRONKOWSKI J. COLE MARILYN MANSON Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singi... BRUCE FORSYTH PATTI SMITH There's very few pitching coaches that I worked with that actually came out on the mound and tol... PHIL NIEKRO I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both b... DEBORAH EISENBERG When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know... CAROLE KING
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to expre... DAMIEN RICE Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and ... DAMIEN RICE I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying... DAMIEN RICE I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and th... DAMIEN RICE Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate v... DAMIEN RICE I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to... DAMIEN RICE There's a Nina Simone record that I love, 'Live at Vine Street,' and she sings flat on i... DAMIEN RICE I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that... DAMIEN RICE Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or gro... DAMIEN RICE I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don... DAMIEN RICE I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are ch... DAMIEN RICE I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame. DAMIEN RICE I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either. DAMIEN RICE Everyone is capable of everything. DAMIEN RICE I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and sa... DAMIEN RICE Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able t... DAMIEN RICE The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zo... DAMIEN RICE When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the wr... DAMIEN RICE The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't f... DAMIEN RICE I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is con... DAMIEN RICE A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be ... DAMIEN RICE I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see any... DAMIEN RICE Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again. DAMIEN RICE When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto o... DAMIEN RICE I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortab... DAMIEN RICE You know when you've found it that's something I've learned, cause you feel it when they take it awa... DAMIEN RICE My eyes were closed, they're open now DAMIEN RICE The shorter story;DAMIEN RICE There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I&#... DAMIEN RICE DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew. DAMIEN CHAZELLE I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a... DAMIEN CHAZELLE DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST I'd love to interview Bill Clinton. I know that might be a little boring, but he's so intere... DAMIEN FAHEY Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a reall... DAMIEN FAHEY I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly. DAMIEN CHAZELLE It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into o... DAMIEN CHAZELLE The greatest thing has been that projects that were pipe dreams before 'Whiplash' are now fe... DAMIEN CHAZELLE It's easy to show terrible people's behavior on screen, and we all just kind of nod and go, ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE 'La La Land' is about the city I live in. It's about the music that I grew up playing; i... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific disci... DAMIEN CHAZELLE Nothing is guaranteed to last, so you should just enjoy it as it happens. DAMIEN CHAZELLE I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel. DAMIEN CHAZELLE I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills. DAMIEN CHAZELLE By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to v... DAMIEN CHAZELLE One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art f... DAMIEN CHAZELLE My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowi... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and t... DAMIEN CHAZELLE My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I guess I'm kind of interested in that elusive search for a bond between life and work and betwe... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode. DAMIEN CHAZELLE I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almos... DAMIEN CHAZELLE There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion. DAMIEN CHAZELLE I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment. DAMIEN CHAZELLE There something to be said for having even unrealistic dreams. Even if the dreams don't come tru... DAMIEN CHAZELLE When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I remember when I first met Jason Reitman with the 'Whiplash' script; he quickly became a me... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day. DAMIEN CHAZELLE DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN ECHOLS DAMIEN CANNON I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements an... DAMIEN CHAZELLE DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain. DAMIEN CHAZELLE DAMIEN HIRST In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all a... DAMIEN CHAZELLE The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it beca... DAMIEN CHAZELLE DAMIEN HIRST It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWI... DAMIEN CHAZELLE Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because... DAMIEN HESS If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and... DAMIEN CHAZELLE When someone is playing drums, they aren't actually moving around a space; they're just movi... DAMIEN CHAZELLE DAMIEN CANNON DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST It's been a great spectacle -- I haven't done that for a while. It's a great opportunity to (score r... DAMIEN MARTYN DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like lookin... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the mov... DAMIEN CHAZELLE DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST My first movie was totally improvised. DAMIEN CHAZELLE DAMIEN HIRST If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as t... DAMIEN CHAZELLE DAMIEN HIRST What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history bec... DAMIEN CHAZELLE DAMIEN HIRST I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winte... DAMIEN CHAZELLE Whiplash' was just a lucky kind of convergence of events in that I'd been trying to get a bi... DAMIEN CHAZELLE DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST We're not enforcing our laws as strictly as we could. When you have a high percentage that is caused... DAMIEN NEWTON America's veterans have earned more than this President and the Republican Congress have provided. W... DAMIEN LAVERA The current EU statement is the latest in a very long list of warnings sent to the Government and Mi... DAMIEN MULLEY Carney? Gentlemen, start your Honeymooners references. DAMIEN COX DAMIEN HIRST These women are sophisticated and educated about fashion. People have a misconception that this is a... DAMIEN VERNET Just because you're down doesn't mean you can't rise to be a cream-of-the-crop team. You just can't ... DAMIEN WOODY Ever since I was in the hospital, I don't take anything for granted. I cherish every second that I h... DAMIEN HESS DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST It's a gross misrepresentation to say gays were omitted from the grassroots report. African American... DAMIEN LAVERA Tomas has the excellent combination of a strong physical presence, agility and technical ability. DAMIEN COMOLLI It's a great budget. What we saw before was DOT trying to build its way out of congestion. DAMIEN NEWTON DAMIEN ECHOLS DAMIEN HIRST We've heard that they're appealing, and that's good, but they've lost a couple of cases. By all mean... DAMIEN NEWTON Americans want change, not more of the same permanent commitment to a failed strategy in Iraq. DAMIEN LAVERA Everyone's nervous, once you hand over your weapons you're exposed. DAMIEN KINGSBURY DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST Lee crossed the line, but everybody does some wrong, and he has been very supportive of people in th... DAMIEN MASON Lee has one of the biggest hearts I've ever come across. He's an extremely generous person. DAMIEN MASON DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST It's hard, especially when the whistle gets a little sensitive. They were getting in our paint more ... DAMIEN WILKINS DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST You're not going to bait me into giving you what you want to hear. DAMIEN WOODY The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well e... DAMIEN CHAZELLE Our roads and streets are getting less safe. A lot of it's due to reckless driving, and we should be... DAMIEN NEWTON DAMIEN HIRST For five years, Republicans in Washington have consistently failed to help working families confront... DAMIEN LAVERA I didn't do a good job of hydrating myself during the week and kind of cramped up (in the second hal... DAMIEN RHODES DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN HIRST Every second, every day I couldn't get on the field, I missed it. There was nothing that could repla... DAMIEN HESS DAMIEN HIRST DAMIEN ECHOLS Thirteen points is a lot to come back from, but we got their lead down to two points. That's four po... DAMIEN WILKINS Tracy's arguably one of the best perimeter players in the game right now. As long as he's on the flo... DAMIEN WILKINS The first thing I did as a child was draw. I wanted to make animated movies. I think Disney's &#... DAMIEN CHAZELLE If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE DAMIEN HIRST I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not re... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not re... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots. DAMIEN CHAZELLE There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a pra... DAMIEN CHAZELLE There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a pra... DAMIEN CHAZELLE I want to see how we bounce back from this. That will tell what kind of team we really have. When yo... DAMIEN WOODY Yeah, but this is not the same team as last year. This is a whole new season, a whole new team. This... DAMIEN WOODY It's early. How many teams do you know their philosophy in Week 2? DAMIEN WOODY I just want guys to realize what the truth is. This is the truth. We're 16-48 since 2001. That's it.... DAMIEN WOODY I watched the game against Pittsburgh, and I knew what they were doing on almost every play because ... DAMIEN WOODY That's the one thing I'm trying to tell guys here: Anything can happen. When we went 5-11, people th... DAMIEN WOODY Any time an organization hasn't won a lot, you have to change the culture. No question we're a bette... DAMIEN WOODY It doesn't have to be one or two guys. I look at a team as everybody being shareholders in this thin... DAMIEN WOODY I don't know what point it was, but we decided not to defend any more. At some point we have to deci... DAMIEN WILKINS It's more or less us not executing well and not getting good looks at the basket, something we could... DAMIEN WILKINS We had a turnover, missed shots and Wally hits a 3. I don't know exactly how it went, but we were ri... DAMIEN WILKINS It's going to be a lot of fun. I just bought my mom a house there. She'll be there. I'm really excit... DAMIEN WILKINS
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What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! 
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If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning. 