Brian De Palma Quotes
Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films.
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I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old Tasmanian Mauve Vein. I think it's because I talk about things that people dare not mention. I don't mean raunchy things or unsavoury things. I call a spade a spade - I discuss things in a realistic manner.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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I have asked my mom and my sister a couple times if I should post something or not. Or if they think a video is funny.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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I'm very proud to be representing Latinas and women of color, young mothers and full-figured women. I just love that we're seeing different types of people on screen.
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When my YouTube videos started to get really big, I was like, 'Man, this is pretty sweet.' It started as my hobby, and then I started traveling and learning how to play different instruments, and then it just kind of became my life.
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Well, I didn't learn them I had to do them phonetically. But I've recorded in Dutch and Japanese, too.
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I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.
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I believe that everything you work at and want in life is a great challenge.
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Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films.
