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'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
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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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The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA.
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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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A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised. . . . Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice.
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I love working with women.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.
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I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years of playing a macho leading man, so when I was offered it, I said: "Why? Why me? What have I done to deserve that you think I should do this?" After much convincing, over a year and two months, I was convinced they wanted to make a great movie.
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The most important images for human beings are simply words, which are abstract symbols. ...Evolution has greatly enlarged the front lobes of the human brain, which govern the sense of the past and the future; and... they are probably the seat of our other images.
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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.
