Wilfred Burchett Quotes
My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.
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I have fabulous children.
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The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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I got a manager, and I thought, since I was going out on auditions, I should do this for a living. Then there was this moment on set when I realized I was having a lot of fun, and I really wanted to do this forever.
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Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.
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I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
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I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.
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As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.
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My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.
