Douglas Horton Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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I don't read books.
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting.
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Music is an important part of my writing process.
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The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.
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In a film there a lot of people scheduling, you know.
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The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.
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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.
