Eve Babitz Quotes
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I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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I watched a lot of soap operas like 'General Hospital' and 'Days Of Our Lives.' When it came to movies, my parents were quite strict. They would watch 'Flash Dance' but wouldn't let us see the whole film because Jennifer Beals' character was a stripper. It was so funny when I finally saw the whole film. I thought she was a ballerina!
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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I've got to say, my parents have always been very supportive. I used to sit in my bedroom and read every liner note and listened to records. My parents are rock fans.
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You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.
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I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.
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As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
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The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.
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To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
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I don't think I've ever watched a movie to prepare for a role.
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I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.
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And I think that if something doesn't make sense, forcing yourself to understand it from Chris Nolan's perspective makes you better.
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Give to God just one thought of sincere love and longing and He responds: 'My child, one silent call from the depths of your soul, and I am there in an instant.'
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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Musicians are impossible.
