Brian De Palma Quotes
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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'Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.
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'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch.
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Clothes have memories, and sometimes you don't want to remember. People remember where they bought the clothes, who gave them, or where they stole them from.
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What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.
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It's been a dream of mine to run my own summer camp. I went to one as a kid, and I put on productions, and got lots of confidence.
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I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
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To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.
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Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.
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I don't really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch 'Adventure Time', 'The Amazing World of Gumball', and 'Looney Tunes' and old classic cartoons.
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It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.
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When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.
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I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Republican, as was my mother, in Virginia.
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The camera lies all the time -- lies 24 times/second.
