Ian Baker-Finch Quotes
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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I'm in a very fortunate position, in that if I had an idea, and I could do it on a web budget, I could probably get it made; it's just a question of finding the time to really develop it, because I don't want to make anything that I don't believe in 100 percent.
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Survival must come before civilization.
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When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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People have had the idea to do a '90s alternative tour for a long time. I didn't come up with that; I was the first guy to basically say it was time.
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It’s a buzz every time you perform under pressure.
