Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
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It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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Marketers sometimes get caught in this lie that you must talk to people only in the voice that they recognize.
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By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong.
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In general, we believe in regulation - just as long as it is fair and balanced.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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I'd much rather be playing songs than talking to people.
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They're playin our song Gene!
