Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes
Since I'm not a second Marx or Freud who can offer people alternatives, I have to let them keep their own wrong feelings. And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable-they should be taken absolutely seriously.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
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I think my cooking these days is a lot more relaxed from when I was working in professional kitchens. Spending time in people's kitchens made me realize that people want to eat healthy meals that are easy to prepare, with minimal ingredients that can be made on a budget.
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I'm in a war, a cultural war.
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Since I'm not a second Marx or Freud who can offer people alternatives, I have to let them keep their own wrong feelings. And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable-they should be taken absolutely seriously.
