Richard Scott Bakker Quotes
Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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Representative Chris Lee was forced to resign after sending a shirtless picture of himself to a woman on Craigslist. On the bright side, he DID surprise his wife for Valentines Day.
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Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing back in Los Angeles, but when you look out there... How can you complain when you see a whale cresting, matter-of-factly, as you make your breakfast?
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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If I spent the rest of my life getting even with the people that had helped me out, I would never settle the score.
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I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change his or her life a little bit for the better, even if it just means giving someone a magical place in which to hide.
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Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.
