Darren Aronofsky Quotes
I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I don't get bothered by fans.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.
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I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are very high and they are not bound by moral codes or being ethical, so they can do anything and will do anything to get what they want.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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There has to be a place carved out for independents, films where the heroes don't fly around in capes, but there are journeys and struggles we need to learn from and be inspired by.
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We all have ambitions, but only the few achieve. A man thinks of a good thing and says: 'Now if I only had the money I'd put that through.' The word 'if' was a dent in his courage. With character fully established, his plan well thought out, he had only to go to those in command of capital and it would have been forthcoming.
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I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life.
