Nick Bantock Quotes
For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm out of kilter with, for want of a better term, the collective unconscious.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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It's not enough for just us to invest in Utah; more and more, we are encouraging businesses around the world to follow suit. We want them to invest in and become part of Utah's future and to allow Utah to invest and become part of theirs.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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There are things I can accomplish in the studio via manipulation on the computer or some kind of effect that are nearly impossible to do live. On the flip side, there are some things that happen live that can't be pulled off in the studio.
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I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.
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I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.
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I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.
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Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?
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The land of scholars and the nurse of arms.
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With all due respect, the fact is, we had four dead Americans-was it because of a protest or because of guys out for a walk one night and decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator.
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The concept of making a movie in which the director dictates is kind of exotic - and absolutely not truthful. Directing means allowing a great deal of collaboration and listening and having the ability to change your mind.
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Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
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I was really active as a kid. I was outdoors constantly.
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I'm interested in where I'm going and the people I am there to see. Going to Cuba was a great example of that, and the succession of going into Cuba, which is not a very easy place to get into, and playing music for people who have never seen a live rock concert outdoors like that.
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I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
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In the green fields a turnin', a baby is born His cries crease the wind and mingle with the morn An assault upon the order, the changing of the guard Chosen for a challenge that is hopelessly hard And the only single sound is the sighing of the stars But to the silence and distance they are sworn.
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Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm out of kilter with, for want of a better term, the collective unconscious.
