Dennis Hopper Quotes
'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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I'm not a very verbal person.
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I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie.
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And so as a director, as a leader, and myself as a director and a leader, I kind of try to make sure that we hold onto the vision and kind of corral it, but by the time you finish whatever the project is, a TV show, a series, a movie, a stage show, it should be a product of what all those people can do, and therefore, it can never be what you imagined it would be in the beginning.
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'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.
