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 deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.
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I don't like to make predictions, because my life's been pretty unpredictable so far.
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The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.
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With each new day, I'm learning how to take control in order to have balance in my life. I plan time for myself and my loved ones and take it.
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Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
