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Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.
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Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.
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Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.
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Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
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My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?
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My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, 'Where's the fun? Where's the glamour?'
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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.
In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996) -
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
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My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.
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My hair used to be real long, and my parents were encouraged when I cut it. They thought I was going 'straight,' but I was just getting weirder - at least in their eyes. I was getting into the punk thing.
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My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.
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My mother came to a Smashing Pumpkins gig once, and I was wearing a dress. She was very upset. She said, 'Everyone's gonna think you're a fag.' I said,'Well, they already think I'm an asshole.
Rolling Stone. 23 January 1997 -
My mother's side of the family, they're from Montserrat in the Leeward Islands.
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My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.
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My parents were strict and taught me the proper fundamentals that I would use in my life. They taught me commitment to work hard.
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My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.
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My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.
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My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.
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My step-mom would tell me that she would get complaints from adults that I stared too much at them.
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