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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Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
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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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War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It is only women's light reading which is derided.
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A month's intelligent instruction in the theory of numbes ought to be twice as instructive, twice as useful, and at least 10 times as entertaining as the same amount of 'calculus for engineers'.
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I do prefer playing baddies because you can push being horrible as far as you want.
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
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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.
