James Howard Kunstler Quotes
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.
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I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I would try to picture the people inside and what they did there.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
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I've been on a tweeting mission.
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Frank Stella is not interested in expression or sensitivity. He is interested in the necessity of painting.. .His stripes are the paths of brush on canvas. These path leads only into painting.
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I think I have femininity, I have masculinity, but I get to use all of Jeffrey, and that's very powerful. And this is what I always thought when I went down in my little basement in San Francisco, where I grew up, and daydreamed about being an actor: It felt like this. This is what it felt like.
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Jesus … look how we live? I'm practically a serf.
