Powell Clayton Quotes
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.
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It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one of the hunters or fishers whom long ago God foreshowed would come in the last days.
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I can't stand Snapchat, but that will be extinct before it is relevant.
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Education is very important to me.
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This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'God-like,' then they say, 'Well, I thought you were saved?' I am saved. I'm not perfect. I have emotions still. My name's still Gary. These things here are not all cleaned up. I'm showing you my path.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Why do wives have to spend so much time dusting, vacuuming, mopping, making beds, washing dishes, when you just have to do it all again six months later?
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You need some quick wins in order to stay pumped enough to get out of debt completely.
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I like to go to the beach, have a bonfire, and play music.
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I drank too much, only champagne.
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New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.
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My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.
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Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.
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I'm not more Brazilian than I am American or vice-versa - I'm very much a combination of all of those things.
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In order to have a continuing influence, the stock market has to continue rising at an accelerating pace faster than exponential. Only a faster-than-exponential stock market growth makes private investors feel richer.
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If you listen to one of my albums, you can tell I do a lot of different things. In the case of 'Vincent', I thought of his picture 'Starry Night.' It was a beautiful road-map for a song. I used a lot of imagery from that painting.
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Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.
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I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.
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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.
