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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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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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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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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My first paying gig was a play called 'The Voice of the Prairie' at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago called Wisdom Bridge. I played a fast-talking radio huckster - a salesman of crystal sets in the 1920s - and I actually won an award. Look at that! And then promptly didn't get hired for a year.
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Both of my grandmothers were needlewomen, so I grew up around dress design.
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For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.
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The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
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Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
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Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.
