Stuff Quotes - Page 83

I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes' and stuff like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' and I turned them down.

I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But sometimes the easiest thing for me to write is pop songs.

I'm never trying to be commercial or accessible, or saying "let's do this weird stuff, but at the same time we gotta do this safe stuff".

Your life can not be all about stuff that you love or even like. Your life is going to be about ups and downs and that is just part of the journey.

Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.

You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book.

I'm not beating people over the head, and I'm saying that there are good things in store - you can make it in life. Most of the stuff that I minister [is] not real complicated deep things.

I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.

I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.

I just don't like to dwell on stuff.

You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'

There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

I think it's quite painfully obvious when someone's practicing through an amp, as opposed to someone who's really laying down some stuff that just happens to be fast.

[On plastic surgery:] My motto is: 'Anything that can be lifted should be lifted. Anything that falls should be caught. And try to catch any falling stuff before it hits the ground.

I worked in an art gallery for a few years, doing administrative assistance stuff, and it exposed me to what the whole world of art dealers and the art market was about.

I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.

The Beatles have a deeper appreciation of all music. There's a humor, there's a Broadway sense, and later on, the Indian stuff came in. The Beatles were always taking in stuff and filtering stuff out to us. There's such a classical sense of arrangement, and their harmonies-what the Beatles did vocally is amazing.

Anything I learned was just work hard, just keep working and don't worry about the outside stuff. Whatever happens will happen.

I don't really like filling my brain with a lot of stuff.

On a daily basis there are some huge ones that are, sure, from time to time, but it is helping the reader sort through all this sort of gray stuff out there.

I would say some of the food I talk about that I really enjoy, like cake and bacon, I eat a lot less than I portray in my act. But that stuff that I dislike, it's pretty sincere.

I'm always trying to complicate things. For some reason I'll go, "Well, maybe I can get that in," and stuff like that. I always make it really hard for myself.

The U.S. isn't a perfect place, but it's better than most people have managed to come up with. And all my stuff is there.