Butch Trucks Quotes
I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John Coltrane 95% of the time.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.
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I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
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Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.
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An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.
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It should be said upfront that I totally dig people who work in bookstores and libraries. They love books, and I love books, and that is all I really need to know. If they are friendly to me, then we are clearly soul mates.
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Motion capture is amazing. I prefer it. You wear a 'Power Ranger'-esque suit, you have tape balls on you, you have 60 cameras around you capturing your every movement and there's no hair, no makeup.
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I don't have the ability to find a middle ground with my audiences, and I know this too well.
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I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John Coltrane 95% of the time.
