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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I definitely want to come back to Cleveland. The coaches, the team, everything about the situation, it's perfect for me.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
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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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Noir has always shown that greed and chaos are as close as the company we work for or the politicians we vote for.
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When I say I'm living the dream, I honestly don't know how it can get any better.
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When I see grace in a woman, that's very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.
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I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.
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I'm like a conductor. I come up with ideas, and I get all these people to make great music together. I have a team of really talented assistant designers. I have architects in my office. People I trained from the beginning in menswear, womenswear, and home. I have a great team who know what I want and feel and translate that into beautiful results.
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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.
