David Johansen Quotes
As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon.
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Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.
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I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
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I made three or four different fonts during 'Short Term 12' -' it was how I'd calm my mind between scenes. I have graph paper and gel pens, and I would do the alphabet: just do 'a' over and over again until I got it perfect and then go to 'b' and then 'c'.
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I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.
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If I wore a sleeveless shirt, people would try to feed me after the match.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.
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As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.
