Abel Ferrara Quotes
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
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A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
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My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
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I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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I have had the most wonderful time on 'EastEnders' and I will miss you all. The show has changed my life and I want you all to continue the good work, because I'll be at home watching you.
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My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I'll die. What's agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends.
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Every battalion has its marching songs.
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I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
