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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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.
Nastassja Kinski
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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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There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by partnerships, where everybody has true stake in them and they're not playing with other people's money, that by default it's a safer system, because you really have skin in the game. You really own the company.
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Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.
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It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern.
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As Representative Barney Frank put it: I believe that we, as the Federal Government, have probably done too little rather than too much to push [Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac] to meet the goals of affordable housing and to set reasonable goals. . . . The more people, in my judgment, exaggerate a threat of safety and soundness, the more people conjure up the possibility of serious financial losses to the Treasury, which I do not see . . . the more pressure there is there, then the less I think we see in terms of affordable housing.15
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'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.
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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.
