Cameron Crowe Quotes
Not that I took it as a fiasco at the time, but no one saw 'Almost Famous' in the theaters,
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I am a Buddhist.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
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We are all affected by the time we are born into, and of course that feeds into your work. Society is based on storytelling - religious myths, opera, film - and 1968 was always seen as a time of rupture and fragmentation. I have always been interested in those words.
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It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?
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I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
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Not that I took it as a fiasco at the time, but no one saw 'Almost Famous' in the theaters,
