Jean Genet Quotes
Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
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I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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Fundamentals make the market.
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
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I don't persuade to suicide.
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I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
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I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.
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I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.
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I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
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My signature look is an eighties baby doll dress, combat boots with colorful socks sticking out, and then mounds of jewelry. I love silver and turquoise. I go to Montana every winter, so I hunt around for cool pieces there.
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No matter how young you are, you're too old for SXSW.
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Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.
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I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it was for my parents. I was only six, so I remember us having to move to Adelaide - but not much of the actual day and night of the flood. We had to start all over again and my parents opened a cafe.
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Braising eggs in a flavoursome, aromatic sauce is all the rage. It is warming and comforting, ideal for the morning when you are not normally up for a great culinary challenge.
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But this was my chance to go to the Super Bowl. Nothing was going to stop me.
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When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.
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The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.
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You know for years before the notion of sequels, actors were the franchise. John Wayne would rarely do sequels, but he kind of played the same guy with a different name in every movie. I have no problem with using actors as franchises. And that's what is fun to do.
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I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.
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Is anything sadder than a trainThat leaves when it’s supposed to,That has only one voice,Only one route?There’s nothing sadder. Except perhaps a cart horse,Shut between two shaftsAnd unable even to look sideways.
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I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.
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Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.
