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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Its appearance is constantly changing. It might sound strange to say this of an inanimate building, but every time you see the Taj, it looks different. The color of its white marble changes throughout the day, from the waxy yellow at dawn through to the pastel blue-gray of a full moon.
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TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).
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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.
