Derek Jarman Quotes
Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.
Quotes to Explore
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.
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There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
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There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
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There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Heroism in a bad cause.
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You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.
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I live in Soho in lower New York; there's tons and tons of tourists right outside my door step, obviously. Most of them are European, and all of them have guidebooks. I never see anyone looking at a phone.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.
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The thing about research is that there's no end. You constantly have this fear that an expert who knows more than you will call you out on some detail in your book.
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We have to think creatively about changes that need to be made in the workplace to accommodate the growing demands on the work force.
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You know that I am living proof that the American Dream is real. Growing up, our congressman cut through government bureaucratic red tape to help my mom buy our first house. That's the kind of congressman I'll be.
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Red protects itself. No colour is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.
