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Related When Mr. Ludwig invented the bass-drum pedal, that's what made the drum set possible. NEIL PEART All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD There are all kinds of addictions, and I've got every single one. If you set me in front of anyt... ANDY DICK I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set. VICTORIA PRATT A Christian sits in his or her well and thinks that the whole world is his or her well. The Jew sits... ABHIJIT NASKAR It's not selling out, necessarily, to do something to gain some kind of notoriety that gives you... ATO ESSANDOH But I've gravitated more towards the drum set. JOHN OTTO Funny, cute and kissable I've found a girl that makes me lose control Every night's like t... THE SUMMER SET Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU There was a set of apartment buildings that simply tipped over. One of the buildings tipped over so ... CARL WENTWORTH It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've go... DAMIAN LEWIS The books are like children in that having written one doesn't make writing the next one any eas... DARA HORN When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just s... MICHELLE OBAMA I've known numerous actors who got a pilot that they thought was going to run forever, and they ... DAVID DENMAN Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER We've had to set a workshop up; we've had to equip the workshop and everything else. But all... DAVID LESLIE You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You h... ELISABETH ROHM 'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the fut... MARTIN VILLENEUVE Unless they show up there as a millionaire, they have to be ready to pay their dues, and that was th... INGRID JENSEN The fact everyone understands but no one acknowledges is that the quality of cleaning will not meet ... ALAN HARDCASTLE Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and the... BILL JANKLOW I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas ... FLORENCE WELCH You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks y... STEVE HARVEY If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum. NEIL PEART Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. What it is basically, if you go to a gun show, and there's somebody out there in the parking lot... PHIL GINGREY The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tac... PETER EISENMAN You've got to set a tone early. We didn't set that tone early last year and it lasted the whole year... EDDIE GUARDADO You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the diffe... CHRIS EVERT You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their g... JOHNNY CASH I've learned after so many years in this business that nothing is set in stone until you're ... KALEY CUOCO Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention... JONNY LANG You change your mind-set, and as long as you've got a good mind-set, you'll know everything ... CURTIS JOSEPH One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your lif... BOB RICHARDS I'm asking you now one more time to give it all you got and give in that extra edge and get the peop... WALTER MONDALE With music, you're laying it all out there. They're judging you right away, and you can lose... KEVIN NEALON It's kind of like a college degree... when you get one, no one can take it from you. When you ge... LUKE BRYAN In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but ... DIDO ARMSTRONG I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now... MALAIKA ARORA KHAN The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn hi... GEORGE ORWELL Equal justice means that there is not one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone els... ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS MSNBC got some very good people. They've got a good-looking set. All They're first-class. So... BRIT HUME The Protestants believe in the higher power through the truth they derive from the word of God. They... SUNDAY ADELAJA It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat o... NEIL PEART I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've writ... PATRICK CARMAN I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool ... TOMMY LEE Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's strea... ADAM MCKAY It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got... MALCOLM WILSON We will have a chance as a team and as fans to pay our respects to John in front of the whole countr... ALAN PARDEW When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn't that excited about going to the Ange... NOLAN RYAN One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the s... ANISH KAPOOR I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bong... JACK WHITE Many of the plans that set out into this market, set out with expectations that they would have a la... DAN MENDELSON I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly ch... EDDIE REDMAYNE The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not a... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal ... MAJOR OWENS There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in... CRISTIANO RONALDO There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. They're all different. TOM SEAVER The bikers love it. When I had to cancel the first date, they said, 'Oh no! You got to do it! They a... CATHY MELANSON If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wou... JOEY ADAMS I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going... VANILLA ICE The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one'... GILBERT K. CHESTERTON They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your... STEVE EARLE I've paid my dues. It wasn't overnight success. I went to tons of casting calls and audition... MADCHEN AMICK I've done a lot of television, and there's no rehearsal process - you have to come to the se... BREE TURNER When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of th... SAMUEL FULLER You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the... MARCUS ALLEN We want to pay for some of it, but not all of it. If you pay for the whole thing, the kid learns the... JASON LAWSON I love the energy of an independent film set. No one is there for the money. Everyone is there '... MAMIE GUMMER I have some friends who have been living in the political world for some time now. It's a lot of... REID SCOTT You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind y... GERALDINE BROOKS The committee-of-the-whole structure, I think, is ineffective, and it hasn't accomplished the origin... COLIN BUTLER The world is constantly in a race to the top, in terms of there's a limited amount of capital an... DAVID MALPASS When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using ... DAN GILROY What matters for the dialectician is having the wind of world history in his sails. Thinking for him... WALTER BENJAMIN You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries... VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun. QUEEN LATIFAH You've got to be like a fan at your show, just wild out. I make eye contact. I get in the crowd ... SCHOOLBOY Q Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic. JEAN SIBELIUS All of the money that gets set aside for student allocations must be assigned to some organization. ... JENNIFER MURRAY In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fiction... JUNOT DIAZ How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL One of the most precious parts of acting is the work before you show up on the set, the time you spe... ZOE MCLELLAN There's a band called Pantera that I listen to, and then Metallica's 'And Justice for Al... CHRISTINA GRIMMIE They don't like any of those people. It's all politics. No matter what happens on-set, off-set, all ... ANDERSON JONES There is a viewer who is over 50 who just gets very excited about me in leather. There are also moth... ANNE ROBINSON Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow, there's no growth at all, pay it al... JIM CANTALUPO Now, I admire The Sims as a game, but from a story viewpoint, there are two glaring problems. First,... DAVE MORRIS You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 1... LARRY FITZGERALD I believe we're all endowed with a very small set of narrow skills that make us unique. You'... DANIEL L. DOCTOROFF If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - ... ALEXANDER HERZEN If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another -- and always into a better set -... ALEXANDER HERZEN As one of the first creators on YouTube, I've been fortunate to sit in the front row, witnessing... MICHELLE PHAN All we did in Alabama was have a read through with the script, but there was, 'No, well, it need... ALBERT FINNEY I've always lived out of a suitcase. I was in a new city every three months. When I was a model,... KRYSTEN RITTER You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there's a definite decline at the end. And th... SETH
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