Van Morrison Quotes
You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Can you imagine telling a woman she can't vote!? The women I hang out with would be going home with parts of your anatomy swinging from their rearview.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I don't attend film parties; I am anti-social. I don't drink, also. Because I don't go out, I don't know what's happening gossip-wise.
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I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.
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My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
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You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.
