Derek Jarman Quotes
The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.
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Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.
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When asked to make the formal declaration that I did not intend to overthrow the Constitution of the United States, I was fool enough to reply that I had no such purpose, but that were I to do it by mistake I should be inexpressibly contrite.
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I found meditation. It was more out of pure desperation: I just started to wake up at 5 and sit for one hour, and suddenly, day after day, piece by piece, I could really feel I was coming back into me.
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Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.
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The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.
