Ry Cooder Quotes
Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.
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Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.
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It's much better to wreak havoc on a show and be a maniac than promote myself. Plugs and anecdotes aren't really in line with my beliefs. Besides, if someone sees me on a morning show and thinks, 'That's not funny; this guy is crazy,' then I don't want them to come to the show anyway.
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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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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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I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear.
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What is a struggle is that acting isn't a place where you go to work and you do that thing. There aren't set boundaries, like an office, where you go and work. For me, the work is always on my mind.
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So, it happened pretty fast, but, it is causing a lot of stir, which thrills me that people still remember the songs.
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I don't like working - I just like having done the end product. The process, I like to make it quick and painful.
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Post-modernism ‘ironises’ out all questions of meaning. It reduces everything to the ‘been there, done that’ mentality, and shrinks the world to a theory of everything that can fit on a T-shirt. It lets us off the hook. We no longer have to be good, just good enough. It lowers the existential bar, and moves the metaphysical goal posts closer, or gets rid of them entirely.
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You really have to love the song you’re working on so this carries through if it takes a few weeks to get every last detail right. So the key is, write what you like and don’t worry about getting your hands dirty.
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Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.
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Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.
