Abel Ferrara Quotes
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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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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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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In my own country, I play light comedies and funny parts.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.
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I imagine there are a lot of people who will never be able to accept me because they feel I've let them down, but I am a different person, and most people have welcomed me back in that spirit.
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My dad was a congressman, and he taught me at a very early age, 'They voted for me, they view me as theirs, and I am.' Our family's phone in Memphis was always listed. It rang all day and all night.
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In this life, it's not hard to do wrong.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
