Stewart Copeland Quotes
Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
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There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'
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I look at other people my age in this industry, other famous people my age, and they've just got famous friends. Which is cool, but I love being normal and just chilling at mine.
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Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.
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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
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Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
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I'm a natural. That's why I make the big bucks.
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The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.
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If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.
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I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time. In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they're told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that's sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time.
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Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.
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I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word - in people's imagination. I've just got a thing about people and songs telling you how you should feel.
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Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.
