Javier Camara Quotes
For me, it's a real shock to see American mainstream films. I can't see these films because it's always the same thing to me. This is very American. Violence is very American, and I can't understand these films. Why do they use violence? To show what? Masculinity? To show fear? Defense? What are you showing with all this violence?
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
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When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.
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I'd rather see a writer write 15 minutes a day than save it all up for a Saturday. A work gets a coating on it when it's not been worked on for a while, makes it hard to break back in.
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An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the charge that such an allegiance amounts to scientism - the view that the only things that really exist are those recognized by fundamental physical theory, and that the only forms of genuine knowledge are scientific ones.
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I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.
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I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.
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For me, it's a real shock to see American mainstream films. I can't see these films because it's always the same thing to me. This is very American. Violence is very American, and I can't understand these films. Why do they use violence? To show what? Masculinity? To show fear? Defense? What are you showing with all this violence?
