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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For me, the money isn't a big issue. I'm at the end of my career and I'm just happy to play.
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If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
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Recreational talking is, along with private singing, one of our saddest recent losses. Like singing, talking has become a job for trained professionals, who are paid considerable sums of money to do it on television and radio while we sit silently listening or, if we're truly lonely and determined, call the station and sit holding the phone waiting for a chance to contribute our two cents' worth.
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It's important to accept your body for what God gave you.
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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.
