Wes Anderson Quotes
You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.
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Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.
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I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.
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Sometimes, from outside, and from America especially, where the racial tension is so intense, you tend to understand Brazil as a kind of ideal situation, but it's not. There are a lot of problems. Historically, we have been in struggle, in real struggle to protect and defend the natural leaning towards absorbing the African and the Indian heritage that our society has.
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I am so fortunate and honored that my music has meant so much to so many people throughout the years as I have worked with some great producers and songwriters.
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You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.
