Harmony Korine Quotes
When I had my first camera - I was a child of the '80s. I remember what it was like reusing the same tapes over and over again, and having really bad quality and images kind of bubbling up from under the surface.
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I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.
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Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.
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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
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Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.
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I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.
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It's called the Samsung Chromebook Plus, and it runs on an ARM processor, the same type of processor that powers the vast majority of smartphones and tablets. It was designed in close cooperation with Google.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.
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I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually, I got to a point where I was just like, 'OK, this is taking too much energy.' After that, I started accepting myself for who I was, and I was like, whoever is not going to accept it, they weren't really meant to be in my life in that way.
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I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!
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My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
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In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.
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My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.
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I can't think of any shows I've watched about teenagers that has the same spirit that 'Skins' has, the same honesty about it.
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Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.
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I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident!
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There is no greater dark than the dark between the stars.
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Liberal education is the necessary endeavor to found an aristocracy within democratic mass society.
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My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he found himself strafing villagers in Vietnam in a war he didn't want to be in and didn't understand. He was extremely conflicted about the line where he went from being the good guy to possibly being the bad guy.
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When I had my first camera - I was a child of the '80s. I remember what it was like reusing the same tapes over and over again, and having really bad quality and images kind of bubbling up from under the surface.
