Harry Dean Stanton Quotes
I was offered a series by John Carpenter after I did the movie Christine, and I would've been a leading man after that. I would have played a private investigator. And I was offered a great deal - I would be involved in the direction, casting, everything, and whatever. It was whatever an actor wants, and I didn't take it.
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I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.
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The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
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My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.
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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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Growing up, I was always wearing my brother's hand-me-downs, so nothing ever fit me. I told myself whenever I have my own money and my own choice with what I get to wear, it's always going to fit me correctly.
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The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you're in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life - you write about the mindset you're in at that moment.
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I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible... now there's the complete package of womanhood.
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
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Your dressing area should be your private space.
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Why can't I prove that advertising can manifest itself in a way that doesn't necessarily mean television ads but changing behaviour and creating a brand out of something that already exists?
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A really first-class company uses really fine stationery.
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There's so much cynicism around in Britain, especially in the press. The American press might be naive, but at least you feel as if they're on your side.
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I'm a person who has always been clear about my love of music and vocal about trying to live in a way that lends itself to health.
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You can divide my life into two.
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Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.
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The 'Tron' fans have a real passion. They know their stuff and what works and why it works. It is more than a movie: it is a philosophy.
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I was offered a series by John Carpenter after I did the movie Christine, and I would've been a leading man after that. I would have played a private investigator. And I was offered a great deal - I would be involved in the direction, casting, everything, and whatever. It was whatever an actor wants, and I didn't take it.
