Stuff Quotes - Page 82

I'd never even sung in the shower, I'm too mortified. But once I got over the initial fear it was kind of enjoyable. Sondheim's melodies and lyrics are a real pleasure to tromp around in, it's really beautiful stuff.

I was raised pretty much a fundamentalist, but the one thing that fundamentalism gave to me was the love for that book and a commitment to read and study it. The difficulty is that I've read it all, I didn't skip around, I read it all, and when you read it all, you can't take it literally because you don't want to blame God for a lot of stuff that occurs in that book. There are some pretty violent scenes.

The longer you live, the longer you hear the repetitiveness of things. So, it's hard to get excited about new stuff.

I'm still really into set design and construction when I do films. I notice that stuff.

I don't know if there's a strategy really so much as, like I learned doing standup and had to learn fast, you always just try to give your favorite, strongest stuff as early as possible and you start with what you like the most.

I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made.

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

I am in that everything [ David Foster Wallace] writes is pretty much the best stuff I've read, so that makes me a fan I guess.

The stuff that I propose are things that I'm ready to govern with. They're not tools to get elected. They are programs and plans to do when you get elected.

I really wouldn't censor myself. But because it was on such a slower scale, I would throw things out, and I indulged the personal stuff as little flashes of truth. Little in-jokes for anyone who was paying particular attention.

Doing stuff never feels as good as you hope it will feel.

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

Give your stuff away and if it's good, people will come to you.

I make sure to hold onto everything, even the stuff I've gotten rid of, because if there's one thing I've learned about the band is that I'll bring stuff in, and it's oftentimes the stuff that I've gotten rid of that's the stuff that everyone else is like, "yeah!!!!"

Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!

I still get really excited looking at stuff that I've seen every day for 20 years.

The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.

From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.

It's easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares.

What's scary is the unknown, the stuff you can't put your finger on.

...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that.

A lot of the stuff that I say doesn't even make TV because it gets cut out. So if you're at the live events you get to hear what I have to say, but if you're watching on TV, you're only getting about 50% of it.

The Broadway schedule is so tough, so relentless there was almost no time to enjoy all the stuff.

If I ever tell the same story twice, just laugh and roll with it because, when you get older, you start doing that kind of stuff.

I'm not of the manor born; I've never felt entitled in that way. I just came to Hollywood to be an actor. All that lifestyle stuff is something to be managed.