Chris Cornell Quotes
You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny Cash with Rick Rubin illustrated that perfectly.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?
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When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.
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No question about that, the radicals are in charge.
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My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
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Christ did not make the atonement when he shed his blood upon the cross. Let this fact be fixed forever in the mind.
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You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny Cash with Rick Rubin illustrated that perfectly.
