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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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"Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?"

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"No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form."

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"I don't think I could live with myself if I stopped trying."

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"We're trying to make a movie that's interesting."

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"If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run."

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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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"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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"My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size."

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"Oh, who am I trying to kid? It's a madhouse. The minute those cameras go off, things just explode, everyone is just at each other in one way or another, in closets or cat fights here and there. It's nuts. You know, I can't be a part of it."

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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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"I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit."
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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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"We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics."
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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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"But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can."
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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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"A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing."
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"My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music."
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