Terrence Malick (Terrence Frederick Malick) Quotes
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Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old forests, Victorian houses, underground goblin cities, and beautiful but creepy fairies.
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I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?
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The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it.
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Never paint except with the three primary colors red, blue, and yellow and their derivatives.
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If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer.
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My deal is you start as far to the right as you can get, and go to the conference committee with the Senate, and hopefully end up with something you can live with.
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I am someone that is very hard to handle. I'm very picante, intense... Sometimes I'm very outgoing and spontaneous and super hyper. Latinas, we love to touch each other - like, cuddle. That's why a lot of people are intimidated.
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I think good things happen to good people.
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The Who is one of my favorite bands of all time. 'The Who Sell Out' is one of the greatest art-project albums of all time.
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Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.
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You don't know how many celebrities I've gone into recording sessions with who first are kind of weirded out by us freaky voiceover people, then when the day is over, they want to stay. They haven't had that much fun acting in ages. It's hard to have any attitude about it.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
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Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.
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My attitude is always let it keep rolling.
