Daniel Johnston Quotes
When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
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When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
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I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?
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I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.
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I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.
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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
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'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.
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'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue to setting, plotting to character creation, is laid out and illustrated with examples. But the tone of the book is not that of a dry writing manual - it's definitely written for teenagers.
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Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.
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You never know how much time you got.
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I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.
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For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.
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Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.
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Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.
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We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.
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The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.
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Frank Capra's grandson was a second Assistant Director on 'Christmas Vacation.'
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We love to make records, and we love to tour.
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I'm past 75, I still walk, and I don't dye my hair blond, and I don't touch it up.
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When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.
