David Cronenberg Quotes
Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.
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For 'A Little Night Music,' I did try to get little bit more beefed up for that because I thought that would help me carry myself around the stage in that character.
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I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.
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My role models have kept on changing.
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What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.
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Illinois has the opportunity to lead the country in providing more affordable health care options to its citizens.
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The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.
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I'll be honest, there have been times when I've listened to the rhetoric in Europe where an easy equivalent somehow between the United States and Russia and between how our governments operate versus other governments operate, where those distinctions aren't made.
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When any sector of the church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.
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Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.
