Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
The first music I remember hearing was the traditional songs of Kentucky - things like 'Roll Along Kentucky Moon.'
Quotes to Explore
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.
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It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
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The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
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Schooling is so important.
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I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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'I do not need nobody tellin' me who I am! I know who I am!...I be walkin' down the hallway, they call me names. They call me faggot, they call me sissy, I say, 'Oh yeah? Well, you forgot, I'm also a model and a actress, so fuck you too!''
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There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.
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The Free Body Culture gave me a gift I might never have received had I refused to play along. It left me with an acute sense of the absurd - one I still cherish - to be there among my fellow apes, awkward and less than half-willing, aiming and missing, leaping, landing and wincing.
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Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.
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That's one of the good things about music. You get to do it live, where you can touch the people and interact with them.
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The first music I remember hearing was the traditional songs of Kentucky - things like 'Roll Along Kentucky Moon.'
