Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
It's just so frustrating when you're in a supporting role because you only get to express a part of yourself.
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.
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Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
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If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
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I love the 1,500 meters. I knew that, if I had to do it to win, I'd run under 4:05. That means I could pick up 100 points, maybe even 150 points, on anybody in the world.
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What is wealth? A dream of fools.
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All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.
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I was never a DC kid - I went through a phase from, like, 11 to 17 where I would try to buy as many Marvel titles as possible. And '2000 AD' was kind of the sort of sci-fi/punk of British comics.
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I have learned not only that the colors and the sounds of war are the same, but the fears of war are the same. You know, there is a fear of dying.
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I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.
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I think religion is a gateway for spiritual awakening.
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In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to say, 'Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.' It's kind of a way of exorcising fear.
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Women simply need to know the right technique of shaving to get the best results.
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I served my country in uniform for 26 years.
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When I grew up, and I think about City Council, I look at the men and women then - these were people who just wanted to be a part of the community and give something back. They weren't necessarily trying to use it as a steppingstone to something else. I looked up to those people.
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Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this.
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Everyone goes through a weirdness as a young person, especially in college, when you're trying to figure things out.
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Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.
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Getting a project started is like moving a ship. It takes a lot of energy to build up momentum.
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Angels are innumerable heavenly beings - immortal and invincible creations of God. He is the Lord of the hosts of heaven.
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I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.
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It's just so frustrating when you're in a supporting role because you only get to express a part of yourself.
