Evan Dando Quotes
I get to see the world and try to make people happy. I'm very much of a wandering spirit, if you'll pardon the expression.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.
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It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
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Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
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My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
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In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
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Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.
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I like creating these moments where there's this dichotomy between something that repels you but is still so attractive that you can't stop looking. You still want to acquire it; there's still that level of aspiration for the image of the figure or the person you're looking at. when you look at the work there's this, "Oh it's really beautifully rendered!" or, "I love those beautiful tones." There's some aspect that's really attractive but the image itself could be slightly distributing.
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It's funny, I used to do a character that was just a baby - just an adult baby. I would get up onstage and complain about adult stuff, but as a baby. I was in a diaper, and I would require hugs from the audience and reassurance and stuff.
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I don't have TiVo, but I watch a lot of 'Judge Judy' - it makes me happy about my life when I see what the people on that show do.
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If I set my mind to something I do it. My biggest wish for all of us is that we are happy, successful, and that we stay true to ourselves.
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I get to see the world and try to make people happy. I'm very much of a wandering spirit, if you'll pardon the expression.
