Ian MacKaye Quotes
Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.
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Whatever your political affiliation may be, whether you are a conservative or liberal, we should all be bound by the belief that we need to support the troops.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made me have to do that. I didn't feel good about the book all the time I was writing it. It felt a bit like wading through molasses.
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I found out later on that was not true, that life drawing tells you a great deal about rhythm, about the structure of a human being or any animate object, and this could be directly translated into thinking about proportion and accent, rhythm in a pot form.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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Paul Giamatti is truly one of my biggest inspirations, and even more so now that I've gotten to work with him. Every single thing he does, he completely transforms into it. When I watch a film with Paul in it, I'm not like, 'Oh, there's Paul.' I'm completely into whatever character he's in, and I'm not thinking about him as an actor.
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The one thing I'm proud of as a filmmaker is that people are entitled not to like my films - that's the privilege of the public - but I think I have my own imprint.
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Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.
