Abel Ferrara Quotes
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.
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All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.
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The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
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Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
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I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.
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Be obscure clearly.
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There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
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For a long time, I said I didn't want to model. I was a dancer.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
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Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
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You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later.
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Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.
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If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.
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They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council.
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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
