D. A. Pennebaker Quotes
I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.
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Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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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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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.
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In response to 4 Good job. More public indecency, less TSA, that's what I say.
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A film should appeal to sophisticated, profound-thinking people while at the same time entertaining simplistic people. A truly good movie is really enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it. A truly good movie is interesting and easy to understand.
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There was a period in my life when I was trying to write standards: songs that everybody recorded. I did a pretty good run of it.
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I've had this underlying need to go to a place and meet people who are on the other end of the portion of my tax money that goes to fund the U.S. and other militaries.
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I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.
