Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
My sister tells me I began singing before I could even talk. My first performance was of a song called My Blue Heaven, which I began singing when I was a year and a half.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
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When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
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I have to satisfy my audience.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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You can never predict a hit or a flop, but it's about what you are happy doing as an actor. Every actor comes with his or her own mindset.
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When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
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Your body has space within you that cannot die.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.
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I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
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Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!
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I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.
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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.
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Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.
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I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.
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To be honest, a lot of ride-alongs are not that great. There might be one or two calls on the radio - not a lot - depending on what time you go.
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Be yourself, but always your better self.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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My sister tells me I began singing before I could even talk. My first performance was of a song called My Blue Heaven, which I began singing when I was a year and a half.
