Karen Black Quotes
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.
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I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?
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I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.
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Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.
