Abel Ferrara Quotes
I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.
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My first priority is trying to protect my family.
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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I usually eat in my friend Tom Corcoran's place - the Siam Thai in Monkstown. I go there for a very large plate of beef in red wine sauce.
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People don't know what to do when writing a story with teens that takes place now - they think you have to make a bunch of references to Facebook.
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I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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Being on a Paul Thomas Anderson film, the best decision an actor can make is to listen to Paul Thomas Anderson. Because he's probably not going to steer anyone in the wrong direction. I would always say go with your gut on any other movie set, but with Paul, I would say go with Paul's gut.
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Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
