Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.
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I don't like controversy.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.
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I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'
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I need to be able to be at a gig and just put my bag on the floor and not worry about it being stood on or getting ruined. You want a bag that can go through anything. And a little bit of softness is always lovely. If I don't have a dog, I can just pet my bag!
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That life is long which answers life's great end.
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Ingiustissimo Amor, perché sì raroCorrispondenti fai nostri desiri?Onde, perfido, avvien che t'è sì caroIl discorde voler ch’in duo cor miri?
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Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win.
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World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.
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I really like streaming services. It's a great way for people to find your music.
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I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.
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As a young girl, there are pressures that come with any career, but I decided when I got into this I didn't want to be perfect.
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The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.
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Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.
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No matter where we are or how advanced we think we are, there are elemental issues of our civilization that stories help us work through.
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The ancient triumph of Christianity proved to be the single greatest cultural transformation our world has ever seen. Without it the entire history of Late Antiquity would not have happened as it did. We would never have had the Middle Ages, the Reformation, the Renaissance, or modernity as we know it. There could never have been a Matthew Arnold. Or any of the Victorian poets. Or any of the other authors of our canon: no Milton, no Shakespeare, no Chaucer. We would have had none of our revered artists: Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, or Rembrandt. And none of our brilliant composers: Mozart, Handel, or Bach. To be sure, we would have had other Miltons, Michelangelos, and Mozarts in their places, and it is impossible to know whether these would have been better or worse. But they would have been incalculably different.
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In terms of earthly life as you understand it, it is overly optimistic to imagine that eventually all illnesses will be conquered, all relationships be inevitably fulfilling, or to foresee a future in which all people on earth are treated with equality and respect.
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But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.
