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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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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I've learned that when I'm directing, I hate when people are always questioning everything and trying to give me directions.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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Without God man has no reference point to define himself.
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Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.
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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
