Ian Astbury Quotes
You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else.
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I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
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My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
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I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.
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We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.
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The nature of things is dharma.
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I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.
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I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.
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For me, getting married doesn't mean we should limit ourselves to some pre-defined idea. Rather, it's an opportunity to explore new things in life.
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I've directed seven movies and know a thing or two about dealing with unexpected crises.
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There is all of this protesting against corporate power, but in reality, corporations have to persuade you - they could have a ton of money, but actually only government can use force.
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It may be that the impressions of her infancy are caught somehow in the pulp of her eyes, luring her. Or there may be some hooked structure in her cells that twist her toward all that the world calls freakish.
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When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say.
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Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.
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Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.
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Donghae always act cute. Not that he's pretending but he is naturally cute.
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Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.
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And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.
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To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well.
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I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.
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I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.
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I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.
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You get paid and you get venerated and worshipped for pretending to be somebody else.
