Darren Aronofsky Quotes
I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored my requirements. I think I was attracted to social anthropology because I liked to travel and was always interested in far-off places.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I think that the more comfortable and the more you rehearse - granted, I don't like to take the air out of a tire; there is a fine line - but I think the freer you are with your dialogue, for example, the more open you are to a good idea walking up to you.
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Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.
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Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.
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I am far more pragmatic than the stereotype of the sex permits.
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I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored my requirements. I think I was attracted to social anthropology because I liked to travel and was always interested in far-off places.
