Evan Dando Quotes
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
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I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
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I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.
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I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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There's so much that goes into a film that I feel like it's a bit arrogant to say, 'Oh, I never watch my own movies.' Well, it's not just you. There's a whole host of other people. So much skill goes into it. But I would say it does take a couple times seeing it to get a level of perspective.
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I write in the studio.
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The symbolic power of Barack Obama's presidency - that whiteness was no longer strong enough to prevent peons taking up residence in the castle - assaulted the most deeply rooted notions of white supremacy and instilled fear in its adherents and beneficiaries.
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Music's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it.
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There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction... The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad.
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Even after marriage, our home is important for us.
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My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world will live forever.
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Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?
