George Chakiris Quotes
I don't regret 'West Side Story' one bit. It was an incredible movie full of young people with amazing rapport.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
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And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.
Nastassja Kinski -
I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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'Mixtape' sounds retro! I used to make lots of mixed tapes. It was one of those '90s things - every girl gave them to her best friend. I remember exchanging a few with a boy on a bus when I was 14. I thought he hated me, but in hindsight, maybe he was in love with me, because he gave me the best music.
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I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.
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I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're faced with, like getting money. It's a really great thing to do. You feel like you're really an artist when you're doing that and you're in a company of artists.
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I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.
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When I first was a part of 'The Monster,' I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record label thought it was good enough - until Eminem liked it.
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Only the shallow know themselves.
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It’s very hard to prosper in this modern economy if you haven’t fully unleashed the potential of your people. And your people’s potential, in part, derives from their ability to express themselves and express new ideas, to try to right wrongs that are taking place in the society.
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A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.
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Physical development fosters learning.
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I worked 18 years to become an overnight success. Now MagicPlace.com will short circuit that process for people.
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I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.
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If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.
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I try not to identify too strongly with any of my characters. I like to stand back and see them objectively. I think this is why I often use boys instead of girls, just in case I get too close and lose the overall picture.
Jenny Nimmo -
Spending time with Mexican-born writer and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, you'd never guess that he's the filmmaker behind a series of movies known as the 'Death Trilogy.' The way he dotes on his children and talks about his wife makes it clear that he has a crackling passion for life.
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I don't regret 'West Side Story' one bit. It was an incredible movie full of young people with amazing rapport.
