Josh Silver Quotes
Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are just a little kid.
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Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate.
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I'm a really big Rihanna fan, and I think she's such an incredible artist.
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I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.
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Honestly, I hate watching myself on TV - I have always hated watching myself and listening to myself.
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Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
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What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.
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A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.
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It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.
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I have no detectable hair style.
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Writing keeps my mind occupied during the down time in my acting career. Even when I am working, there are times when I have multiple days off each week. Also, the writing allows me to 'do' movies that I would never do as an actor.
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Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere.
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If you're not an optimist, forget being an artist.
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In film, you can have sad endings.
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I think there's a joy to be had in taking readers where they just don't want to go. If you are writing a properly realist novel, then don't blink. Why not see something for what it is and render it truthfully? I find it a good way of going about writing - not to blink.
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What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.
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When I'm not shooting, I don't wear much makeup. I just moisturize and maybe put on a berry-colored balm on my lips and cheeks, and then mascara - that's it. My face and hair gets abused every single day, so I try take it easy on off days.
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Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.
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I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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Be true to yourself and your values.
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Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.
