Garret Dillahunt Quotes
If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
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The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
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I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
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I'm a better polemicist in prose.
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Just for you to know, people, models, are very smart. We're investing money in the right way, and, you know, a modeling job I'm taking as a businesswoman. So it's not fun for me; it's work.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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I invited a group of students to my studio to expose them to both the creative and business sides of the fashion industry. It was fun because the group was so bright and full of curiosity. They asked really challenging questions about all aspects of the business and absorbed so much information so quickly.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.
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A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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There is no substitute for a real location when you're trying to shoot the jungle. You can't just go anywhere. You've got to go where it's lush and green and there really is those mountain ranges, the trees and the ocean.
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I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.
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You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.
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In my 40s - when I was giving to the Red Cross, United Jewish Appeal and other charities - I said to myself, this is all well and good, but these are really amorphous things, and maybe there are some causes out there that I really give a damn about.
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The bottom line is that it's hard to find a model in which you can practically administer and sustain political support for those kinds of efforts. And what makes America complicated as well is the degree to which this is not just a black/white society, and it is becoming less so every year.
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I guess I've accepted that theatre is never going to be edgy in the way I want it to be. It's too expensive for a start. And, the audience seems to be complicit in the dullness.
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If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
