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've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
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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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To really be conscious of how long the journey is, be patient, push yourself, persevere, and always be working on your craft while waiting for your break. That's what I'm still working on, having done this for 20 years now.
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We thought we'd have to look for survivors.
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We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.
