Terry Zwigoff Quotes
I try to make the set as relaxed and fun and stress-free as humanly possible, while still having control over things. It's usually tension that hurts a performance or makes it seem self-conscious.
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I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
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Being a teenager is hard.
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Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
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All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.
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When the first American steps on the red dust of Mars, it's going to be because of computer scientists.
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When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, line by line. And there's this idea that the director has the whole thing in his or her head and they're going to somehow weave it all together in the end.
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I love playing intense characters.
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I tend to make my most important decisions by following my instincts rather than any straightforward logic.
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I am in love with every member of One Direction.
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That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.
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People tend to think about trade as if it's competition between companies - if Apple wins, Google loses. But that's false. Trade makes nations better off in general. Now, I want to be clear. I'm not saying that everything about trade is good and beneficial. Trade also has costs.
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Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living.
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Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God.
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When you're in love, your heart and your mind are in sync, and everything just feels right. It's a special feeling.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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I'm trying to be more organized, put together, and be more kind to myself. I'm really hard on myself and really just self-critical and always striving for this perfection which doesn't exist.
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I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don't care what it is.
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I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem to assume that there will be large, monolithic bureaucracies...that are capable of harnessing computers for one-way surveillance of an unsuspecting populace. I've come to feel that computation just doesn't work that way. Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when they have computers, is like being afraid of really big gorillas especially when they are on fire.
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I try to make the set as relaxed and fun and stress-free as humanly possible, while still having control over things. It's usually tension that hurts a performance or makes it seem self-conscious.
