Brian De Palma Quotes
I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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Normally, I'm a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy.
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You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, 'Just be yourself!' She also eats dessert every single day.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
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Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
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You can stroke people with words.
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I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.
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I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don't know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy.
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Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.
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Fashion starts with fashionable people.
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I wanted so badly to be in a famous band, and it was not happening. I played drums with different bands and with the Blue Man Group in Chicago, but I definitely felt like, 'Wow, I did not picture my life being like this.'
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I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.
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I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue.
