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Pretty Quotes
"I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances."
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"It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else."
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"In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place."
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"I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right."
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"No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too."
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"I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves."
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"But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing."
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"Every person is so different and I don't think there is an exact match for every person. If you meet someone and they have 20 of the 25 things you want in a person, then you're pretty lucky."
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"We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't have to win everything to be a fan of something."
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"PAYE means pay as you earn but it could also mean Pretty Accurate Yet Estimated."
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"In Mallrats, you pretty much don't see him sell any weed, really. I don't consider him a big dealer."
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"Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded."
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"In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is."
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"Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves."
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"The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true."
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"I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty."
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"But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script."
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"I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking."
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"I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues."
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"Weed, you know, you just get mellow. You can drive pretty stoned and be OK. I mean, sometimes you get too stoned and you can't drive. But you could get pretty stoned and still drive."
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"Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds."
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"When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things."
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"I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great."
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"It's a pretty frantic world that we live in."
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"I'm pretty disciplined and am almost always on schedule."
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"I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine."
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"But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good."
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"Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air."
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"You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good."
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"It's pretty clear to me that working as a director for hire agrees with me. I like it. The films that have come out of that, I personally like better than the ones that didn't."
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"Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed."
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"I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft."
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