Abel Ferrara Quotes
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.
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Start slowly, then taper off.
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Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
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To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
