Abel Ferrara Quotes

Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'

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• No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Live
  • Thoughts

• I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Morning

• When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Good
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• Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
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• After you get what you want you don't want it.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Want
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• Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.

  

  Barbara Johnson
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Better

• Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

  

  Rachel Cusk
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  • Society
  • Black

• In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • Long
  • School
  • High

• Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

  

  Gates McFadden
  • Life
  • Information
  • Fast

• There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.

  

  Pat Summerall
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• A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.

  

  Fetty Wap
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• If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

  

  J. Cole
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• Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.

  

  Brown Campbell
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• Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Life
  • Faith
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• In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Small
  • Listening
  • Theatre

• We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Democracy
  • Worthless

• Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Win
  • Credit
  • Soldiers

• When my coach gives me a program, I damage it.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Program
  • Coach
  • Damage

• You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Ask

• I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.

  

  Neill Blomkamp
  • Movie
  • Space

• He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Life
  • Books
  • Immersed

• We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

  

  Aristotle
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  • Body
  • Ask

• Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'

  

  Abel Ferrara
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