Jim Jarmusch Quotes
What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case.
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I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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Women who are stronger than the society allows them to be often feel a need for something stronger than themselves, and to dissolve into it.
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Each and every time I went in for IVF treatments, I knew there was a bipartisan group of Congresswomen praying for me, and I was honored that the same group was there at my baby shower.
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I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.
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I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
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There's no ex out there who I'm not friends with today, and I'm extremely thankful for that.
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The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
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Meditation is a really powerful tool I have for life now. The only reason I know about it is because I was stressing about writing and a friend taught me it. It's been useful.
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In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.
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This is not a mere change of guards, I think this is a fundamental change in the politics of our government.
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Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.
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The female in question was a sloppy pest
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'Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.'
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You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.
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I'm wildly different than Maria Bamford or Sarah Silverman, and might be more similar to some male comics.
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What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.
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This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it...Plus, being married and monogamous, it's the closest thing I can do to having sex without getting in trouble for it...The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.
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It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.
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What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case.
