Elliott Smith Quotes
There's some records that sell millions of copies, that it's really unclear if anybody liked it who was making it, y'know?
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I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
Gail Devers -
When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
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I like movies where you feel like it was actually thought through.
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I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
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Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
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For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
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What you see in 'Daredevil' and 'Jessica Jones' isn't the Hell's Kitchen of today; it's a version of what it was like.
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Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.
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It's hard talking about acting, in a way, because it's like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the telling.
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I can handle a lot of work. I've always been able to. I'm a very focused individual. I come to my studio at about 7:30 in the morning and exit almost 5:00 P.M. In that time, those eight or nine hours, it's kind of laser focus on whatever I'm working on. There aren't really any distractions or anything.
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Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.
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It’s been an amazing journey thus far in my music career. I feel honoured and blessed to be able to remain relevant and put music out that reaches the heart and moves the soul. Certainly God has favoured me.
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There's some records that sell millions of copies, that it's really unclear if anybody liked it who was making it, y'know?
