Ray Manzarek Quotes
We're all getting older. We should, the three of us, be playing these songs because, hey, the end is always near. Morrison was a poet, and above all, a poet wants his words heard.
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don't know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.
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Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
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I've always loved film more than theater.
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.
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I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs.
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Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.
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Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks.
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We're all getting older. We should, the three of us, be playing these songs because, hey, the end is always near. Morrison was a poet, and above all, a poet wants his words heard.
