Wesley Earl Craven (Wes Craven) Quotes
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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I have a very feminine voice when I write, a very womanly point of view. My last name feels strong and powerful. To me, it's almost a bit masculine. I like the dichotomy of the two. Two sides perfectly represented within my name.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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I want to produce a country album for a country singer.
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I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get offstage and greet an audience afterwards, their first reaction is to comment on my height because it seems like a very drastic difference.
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Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.
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After the oil crisis of 1973, many European countries tightened restrictions on immigrants. By then, millions of Muslims had decided to settle in Europe, preferring the social segregation and racial discrimination they found in the West to political and economic turmoil at home.
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When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.
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If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.
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When I say 'hip-hop is dead,' basically, America is dead. There is no political voice. Music is dead.
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Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.
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Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.
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My hope is to continue to make new music and go with the flow. I think I'll always be creative. I want to keep making good music, put myself into positions where I need to rise to the occasion of playing in front of an audience, and continually get better at what I'm doing.
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Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.
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Like liberals, anarchists want freedom; like socialists, anarchists want equality. But we are not satisfied by liberalism alone of by socialism alone. Freedom without equality means that the poor and the weak are less free than the rich and strong, and equality without freedom means that we are all slaves together. Freedom and equality are not contradictory, but complementary.
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It was the beginning of the end of my affiliation to the church
