Abel Ferrara Quotes
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After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.
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Interior design is a business of trust.
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I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
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I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.
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I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.
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And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
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Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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I really love peace and quiet.
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I want to come and play in cities and states where transgender citizens are not discriminated against, where there's no hateful bathroom bills at the shows where I'm going to be playing.
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What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.
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Find purpose. The means will follow.
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If you want to grow a muscle, you must lift something out of your comfort zone. Push beyond what is comfortable, if you don't there will be no growth.
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Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
