Ry Cooder Quotes
You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.
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I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
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I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
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'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
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You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.
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I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion’s sake.
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We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.
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When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.
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It's been constant grinding and trying to secure work that I care about, tireless auditions and meetings. I've been fortunate that a lot of cool doors have opened to me, chiefly meeting great people who were inspired by what I've done and what they feel I could bring to their projects.
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You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.
