William Gibson Quotes
I loved the Limey [movie]! It's so violent! And yet it's so exquisitely romanticized in a sort of Japanese way, it's a samurai film. Coming out of that, I was really deeply conflicted, because a friend who had seen it said, it's beautiful, but it's not about anything. it's one micron thick.
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You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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Chinese people age overnight.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
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Gay men have to go through something to own their - who they are. They get beat up. They get ostracized. Whatever they go through, if they survive it, they come out very confident people.
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A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.
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If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.
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There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.
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The Underneath was my first film. Steven Soderbergh. I remember that I thought, "Wow, this is such a highlight. Am I ever going to get back to this?" Loved working with Steven and in Austin, Texas, one of the rockin'-est towns in America. I'll always remember it, because I was really grateful that someone finally hired me for a movie.
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I loved the Limey [movie]! It's so violent! And yet it's so exquisitely romanticized in a sort of Japanese way, it's a samurai film. Coming out of that, I was really deeply conflicted, because a friend who had seen it said, it's beautiful, but it's not about anything. it's one micron thick.
