Ian Astbury Quotes
I'm not really caught up in the whole commercial thing of Christmas. I'm probably more of a pagan than a Christian, but it's hard not to get caught up in it.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.
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On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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Failure is our most important product.
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If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.
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I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.
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Films like 'Namo Venkateshaya' give immense satisfaction, happiness, and makes us feel blessed, and so I consider it the best film in my career.
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Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and it'll kill you.
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I'm not really caught up in the whole commercial thing of Christmas. I'm probably more of a pagan than a Christian, but it's hard not to get caught up in it.
