Shane Carruth Quotes
If something can be explored or illuminated that would have been difficult to verbalize, that to me is what a film should be. It's like trying to explain what a piece of music is like. You can't do it.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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I am fighting my natural body shape to do what I do.
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I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.
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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.
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I strongly believe that good books are the best home accessory.
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It was a white-collar crime.” Illium gave her an odd look. “In the human world, such crimes are lightly punished, though they harm hundreds, leading some to choose death out of despair, while the man who beats a single person is considered the worse criminal.
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I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone.
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He never once has made any emphasis on his last home game or his last game. It's just been status quo.
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I believe that States should be credited for their non-Federal investment in revenue-generating transportation facilities to address their regional transportation needs.
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Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
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If something can be explored or illuminated that would have been difficult to verbalize, that to me is what a film should be. It's like trying to explain what a piece of music is like. You can't do it.
