Jim Jarmusch Quotes
I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.
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I want to get into movies, not just TV series.
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
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Clowning is a trick to get love close. I can hug 99 percent of people in the first second of contact if I'm in my clown character. The clown assumes your humanity. It assumes that, whatever trauma you've had, you can still love yourself.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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I've always been very fond of animals.
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I want a director who can let me feel that he's listening and watching and that he's got me covered. That security is really important for me because sometimes you go into a vulnerable space, and you want to be able to look to somebody because you get insecure: 'Did I do that right?'
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I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
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And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.
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I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.'
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No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
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I don't want to sing boring pop songs – I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.
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The spiritual history of the Sixties has yet to be written.
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Just you think first, and don’t bother to speak afterward, either.
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I learned that you can accomplish so much, no matter what the limitations may be. You just gotta believe to achieve.
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Katy Perry's politics I could probably do without, though I have friends who have interacted with her that say she's very nice.
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I would love it if, even for one day, you could walk through a neighborhood and see an Asian guy sitting on his stoop, then you look across the street and see a black guy and a white guy sitting on their porches, and a Mexican dude walking by.
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So in 1924, Eleanor Roosevelt really gets a sense of what the limits of the battle and the contours of the battle are going to be. The men are contemptuous of the women, and the women really need to organize. She writes an article which becomes an article she writes in different ways over and over and over again: Women need to organize. They need to create their own bosses. They need to have support networks and gangs so that they are a force.
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Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.
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I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.
