Rob Thomas
11 quotes
"Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well."
"Some things you don't need until they leave you, they're the things that you miss"
"I'm the flame I can't get burnt"
"Everyone's trusting in their hearts, like their heart don't lie"
"If I fall along the way, pick me up and dust me off; If I get too tired to make it, be my breath so I can walk; If I need some other love then, give me more than I can stand; When my smile gets old and faded, just wait around I'll smile again; It shouldn't be so complicated, just hold me and then, just hold me again"
"Can you help me? I'm bent, I'm so scared that I'll never get put back together."
"It's a noir world. Unfair things happen."
"Her strategy for honoring the dead had always been to take action - solve the mystery, punish the criminal. But what did you do when there was no one to punish? When there were no answers to find? How do you assimilate that kind of loss without losing your mind?"
"But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good."
"It's funny: I always, as a high school teacher and particularly as a high school yearbook teacher, because yearbook staffs are 90 percent female, I got to sit in and overhear teenage girl talk for many years. I like teenage girls; I like their drama, their foibles. And I think, 'I'll be good with a teenage daughter!'"
"I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like most people in America, need to keep making money."