Brian De Palma Quotes
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Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
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I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.
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I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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It was sort of his 'Brando' moment - his very 'method' moment. He just absorbed it and continued on.
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Working with Jon Hamm was super-fun because he's a brilliant actor and he's very kind. I would hang around sets for scenes that I wasn't even in because I wanted to watch how he worked.
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It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.
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By any measure, NBC is a corporation.
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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
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My mother never warned me not to do this or that for fear of being hurt. Of course I got hurt, but I was never afraid.
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Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
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We don't go on about trying to save the Brazilian rain forest. We're not ashamed of the fact that we can write lyrics like Let's Get Rocked which 99 percent of the world thinks is completely ridiculous, stupid and immature. If George Bush stood up on stage and pretended to be Eddie Van Halen that would be ridiculous, so when I see the Billy Braggs of this world using music as a soapbox it pisses me off. Music should always entertain, first and foremost. Nobody would take us seriously if we did songs like shut the ozone layer, save the rain forests, stop killing people in Bosnia. Everybody would laugh at us. I'd rather listen to Noddy Holder (Slade) sing about nothing at all than do a duet with Sinead O'Connor. We're not that desperate for publicity. We'll always be Leppard.
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I don't see scarey films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.
