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It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.


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DHANI JONES I think we're very lucky that there is a tradition of British actors working in America and bein...
FELICITY JONES The good, old-fashioned family can help. Students learn by example, and if their parents, aunts, unc...
AL JONES That's a worry, because we have seen the intensity of students playing video games, watching TV more...
AL JONES It's the personal, intimate nature of books. It's hard to curl up with a computer.
AL JONES Somebody must have run a red light, I'm thinking that's the Honda based on preliminary reports.
AL JONES He was kind of the old-style beat cop. He took care of his area; he really felt responsible for his ...
AL JONES We talked in the locker room about how we've improved so much. That's what you want a young group to...
AL JONES We dug ourselves a hole pretty deep and just couldn't get back out of it. We didn't score a field go...
AL JONES When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the mu...
ADAM JONES In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little ...
ADAM JONES I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
ADAM JONES Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.
ADAM JONES I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
ADAM JONES I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes...
ADAM JONES I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
ADAM JONES I'm not a good guitar player.
ADAM JONES If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.
ADAM JONES Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
ADAM JONES