Nagisa Oshima Quotes
I do not like to be called a samurai, but I admit that I have an image of myself as a fighter. I would like to fight against all authorities and powers.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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My number one job at the end of the day is to entertain.
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For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
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Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?
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To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.
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We passed a bill in 1997, signed by Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles, which created a pilot program for a novel experiment called Florida Virtual School. The notion of children using a computer for a classroom and reporting to virtual teachers wasn't exactly mainstream thinking in those days.
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I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.
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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
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Americans look at the Middle East as a source of trauma because of 9/11. At the same time, I could see the fear going on in the Middle East as well - which would be the next country to be invaded or sanctioned? Being around those tensions was traumatic for me.
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I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
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You know, if you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything, wouldn't you, at any time? And you would achieve nothing!
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I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just taught myself that way.
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There are not many heavyweight fighters to come by, so having so many sparring partners is a big luxury a lot of other fighters don't have.
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Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.
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Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!
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Once I finish a film, I don't ever see it again. Never ever. I have never seen any of my films since I finished them.
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I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.
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I do not like to be called a samurai, but I admit that I have an image of myself as a fighter. I would like to fight against all authorities and powers.
