Terrence Malick (Terrence Frederick Malick) Quotes

When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.

Terrence Malick

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• It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.

  

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• A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.

  

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• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  

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• Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

  

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• Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

  

  Adam Hamilton
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• What So Not used to be a lot more dance-y, and now it's becoming a lot more melodic. Flume has always had that melodic thing, but it's starting to become a bit heavier, so it's just difficult to navigate between the two.

  

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• You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'

  

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• I am much more interested in the process than results.

  

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• We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.

  

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• You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

  

  Barry Mann
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• In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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• Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if I'm nervous before going on stage, but that's natural to many performers. If I think it's going to be a problem, I just reach for my inhaler.

  

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• As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.

  

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• It does not destroy matter, which is reassuring. Rewriting one law of physics is worse than trying to eat one peanut.

  

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• I thought: 'Gosh, it really has been worth the wait.' And I think had I gone with Evita, I probably wouldn't have been ready to deal with it. It was just the most perfect time to go with that particular show.

  

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• When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.

  

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• And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life

  

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  • School
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• When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.

  

  Terrence Malick
  • People
  • Important
  • Struggle