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.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • College
  • Language
  • Poet

• It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Faith
  • Vision
  • Courage

• 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.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Purpose
  • Dance
  • Step

• I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Hip Hop
  • Chris
  • Martin

• Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Business
  • Interesting
  • Social Media

• We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Monsters
  • Competing
  • id

• I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Why
  • Understanding
  • Progress

• 'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Story

• 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.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Success

• I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is, every sound I can make has been harvested.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Different
  • Done
  • Sound

• All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • Words
  • inspirational

• 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.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• My first priority is trying to protect my family.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Family
  • First
  • Priority

• The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Today
  • Hero
  • Tomorrow

• 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.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Live
  • Today
  • Feelings

• 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.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Country
  • Money
  • Energy

• We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Walk

• 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.

  

  Ian McKeever
  • Friend
  • Red
  • Wine

• What's the third smartphone platform? Is it Windows phone? Is Windows Phone going to finally get off the mat in the developed world? Amazon believes their platform has a chance to become the third.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Chance
  • Windows

• My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.

  

  Ben Whishaw
  • Up
  • Intuition

• I think Ray Liotta in 'Goodfellas' is the best ever. Given that it was two hours, it was a little bit more theatrical, and I mean that in the most positive way.

  

  Boyd Holbrook
  • Positive

• Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, 'Thank you?'

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • High
  • Pain
  • Marijuana

• Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is an evil, and most of them will agree, but with a reservation. 'Yes,' they will say, 'wrong patriotism is an evil; but there is another kind, the kind we hold.' But just what this good patriotism is, no one explains.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Good
  • War

• I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Dying
  • Talking