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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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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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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A man's kiss is his signature.
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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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If you look at Republicans, they always run these old war horses.
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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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Safety is in Heaven. Put your values there only; put your heart there. No tears are there to flood your heart, no sorrows there to break it, no losses there to grieve and embitter.
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I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.
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My material never comes out verbatim every time. I always tweak in a line, or tweak away a line, gain a couple tags or lose a couple tags. The timing is always off.
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I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.
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My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.
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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.
