Romany Malco (Romany Romanic Malco Jr.) Quotes
Wanting an honest opinion about my art from someone whose opinion I respect makes me feel vulnerable. It's a great space to be in.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
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I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.
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It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.
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I've got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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Anybody who has spent time with the networks - in fact, you don't even have to spend time with the networks, all you have to do is just watch primetime TV - and you think, 'What the hell are they doing? I could run the network better.' And I think everybody feels that way.
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A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.
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We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
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The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.
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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
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Q: If you find so much that is unworthy of reverence in the United States, then why do you live here? A: Why do men go to zoos?
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My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime stories and unloaded the dishwasher while I slaved over chapters.
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A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
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An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.
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Wanting an honest opinion about my art from someone whose opinion I respect makes me feel vulnerable. It's a great space to be in.
