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" I'm very happy. "
Ron Perlman
Very
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" The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase. "
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" I'm just trying to make up for lost times, and I have total awareness that when the work is coming it doesn't mean it's going to continue to come, so I'm taking advantage of this phenomenal period that I'm in now, to its fullest. "
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" I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight. "
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" I'm continuing to do research into biker culture. "
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" I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure. "
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