Derek Jarman Quotes
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children.
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
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Many people use the words 'death defying' or 'death wishing' when they talk about wire-walking. Many people have asked me: 'So do you have a death wish?' After doing a beautiful walk, I feel like punching them in the nose. It's indecent. I have a life wish.
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Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.
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I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.
