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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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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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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That persons have opposing interests and seek to advance their own conception of the good is not at all the same thing as their being moved by envy and jealousy.
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If I do become more successful, either as a producer or a rapper, I'm going to do everything I can to help whoever I can on the label.
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In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.
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I don't want to do any more covers. It's good to learn to make things your own, but the education's over. 'Grace' is putting a lot of things to rest.
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I think that film combines almost every element that makes human life worth living.
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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.
