Dave Navarro Quotes
I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
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You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.
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Nothing's sacred anymore. Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover. It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her.
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
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When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?
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I was a typical French student of the 1990s - I imagined that, after a short excursion, I would work the rest of my life at home.
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I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.
