Faris Badwan Quotes
It's just what we love doing. I don't feel like we have some kind of obligation to... It's really just a natural thing.
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I didn't have all that much to write about except for my own life and my family.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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I've never been a movie buff. If I did go to a theatre to watch a film, half the time, I would fall asleep.
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I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before 'Saturday Night Live' did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared.
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When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems – like prejudice and desegregation, for instance – that we face in our everyday lives.
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I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.
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Who knows what will happen in five years' time.
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I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
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Always stay true to who you are.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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I like 'Glee' a lot. It's kind of like my guilty pleasure.
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Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.
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It's just what we love doing. I don't feel like we have some kind of obligation to... It's really just a natural thing.
