Jim Jarmusch Quotes
I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
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David Lynch plucked me from obscurity. He cast me as the lead in 'Dune' and 'Blue Velvet,' and people have seen me as this boy-next-door-cooking-up-something-weird-in-the-basement ever since. I was 23 when I first met him, in his bungalow on the Universal lot, and could never have predicted we would have such an enduring relationship.
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I had a bit of a strange childhood, to be honest.
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I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
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There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.
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I definitely live to eat. I love food in every way imaginable, and it does not have to be fancy. Whether we stay in or go out, I like a hardy meal. My grandmother taught me how to cook, and it was all about no fuss and lots of it.
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I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely.
