Jake Shears (Jason F. Sellards) Quotes
L.A. will never, ever, ever, ever be my town. It'll never be my town. It's not New York.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
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The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.
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We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
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I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us.
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
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I like to race, not to do laps alone.
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.
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When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.
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Every day, you're only as good as your last show.
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I had an entrepreneurial spirit and started branching out from there.
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My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.
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Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
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With 'Delirium,' I had to spend time thinking about the political, social and religious structure of a different world. But it was a fun challenge.
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I'm booby and kind of curvy, so I definitely need to wear things that work with that. I can't just put on a muumuu, because it looks crazy on me.
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You have to destroy something to make it beautiful.
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It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.
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But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.
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L.A. will never, ever, ever, ever be my town. It'll never be my town. It's not New York.
