Bojana Novakovic Quotes
I'd have to fight for an Australian role over an American actor, and I already have to do that overseas, so why would I have to do it back at home?
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.
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I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.
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My favorite place is where I live in Jacksonville.
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I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.
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People keep asking me whether I'm going to vote for Obama or McCain in the election. But I'm like, why bother? There will never be another leader as good as he was.
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I'd have to fight for an Australian role over an American actor, and I already have to do that overseas, so why would I have to do it back at home?
