Patti Smith Quotes
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
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No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.
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I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of romantic comedies, in fact I can't stand them. I'm really more of a fan of 'Team America' and 'Dodgeball.'
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Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
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Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.
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A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.
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Anyone would think paintings were made like speculations on the stock market, out of the frictions of ambitious young people... ...it sharpens the mind, but clouds your judgement.
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Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.
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Do your best and let God do the rest.
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The morbid logician seeks to make everything lucid, and succeeds in making everything mysterious.
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If women cut back on their ambitions en masse, institutional change will never happen and the glass ceiling will lower. We need to be there to demand equal pay, mandatory maternity leave, more human hours. Leaving the “dirty work” of working to the men is a way of muffling our own voices.
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Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread.
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We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.
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You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.
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I was looking for an opportunity to make my first feature, so I asked myself: "What do you want to do? Is there something you can give to the world?"
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I'd just make sure with anything I say I know what I'm talking about.
