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Travis Barker

"I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen."

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"I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen."

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"While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong."

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"You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do."

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"Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working."

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Amber Hurdle

"I like to live righteous. And I just want everyone to know I'm not trying to get out of anything."

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"One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories."

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"I'm not trying to take Cate Blanchett down."

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"I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good."
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"But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song."
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"We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics."
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"All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding."
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"A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing."
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"We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks."
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"Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books."
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"We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour."
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"But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can."
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"I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit."
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