Stephen Root Quotes
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Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.
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Because Republicans have no ideas, they want to turn elections into the battle of dollars.
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I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.
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To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.
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We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.
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I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.
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When you're shooting a low-budget movie you're never just the director: you're also in the catering department, and hair and make-up and a part-time grip. I can't even imagine the luxury of not having to keep an eye on every aspect of production while directing.
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In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men be restrained from acts of violence and even of unkindness against their fellow men by observing in them something which resembles the Savior of the World? If nothing else certainly, a human figure?
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The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market....The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank.
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And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.
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To think deeply of simple things.
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The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker.
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I want you to sing with rapture and dance like a dervish.
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Only fools and passengers drink at sea.
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I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified
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I know why politicians want to go on TV: that's where really old people are. And old people vote.
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Sometimes we have to go to the darkness alone, before we can see the light.
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It's good for you to go somewhere that you wouldn't normally go.
