Patti Smith Quotes
The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort of wasn't going to happen.
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.
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Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.
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I've always been conservative. I was born that way.
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Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.
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I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.
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Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
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You're not getting the joy out of literature that it gave you. This is the danger of what we do. Look at Hemingway and so many others. You devote your life to one thing, that is what you are. It's artificial but it's all you have. If you lose it, then you're nothing and there's no point in going on.
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I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
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I get 'Hodor' tweeted at me a lot.
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I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.
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I have no athletic skills whatsoever. I'm just literally incompetent.
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The only thing I daydreamed about was being an opera singer. But I was so skinny and so pathetic that that sort of wasn't going to happen.
