Barbara Hammer Quotes
I have thought about posterity all my life. There isn't as much adventure and creative unfolding as there is in planting a garden and watching it grow. It's like watching the film grow, because you don't know what the seed of an idea is going to actually result in.
Quotes to Explore
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.
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I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
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The best migrant is the migrant who does not come.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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When you listen to radio and hear the same 20 or 25 songs, you start hunting down your CD's. Waylon Jennings' records were always around to listen to.
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Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.
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When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.
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I climb mountains.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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I think I just want to garden - or kill some plants, in my case.
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Flying for the airlines is not supposed to be an adventure. From takeoff to landing, the autopilots handle the controls. This is routine. In a Boeing as much as an Airbus. And they make better work of it than any pilot can. You're not supposed to be the blue-eyed hero here. Your job is to make decisions, to stay awake, and to know which buttons to push and when. Your job is to manage the systems.
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The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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I have thought about posterity all my life. There isn't as much adventure and creative unfolding as there is in planting a garden and watching it grow. It's like watching the film grow, because you don't know what the seed of an idea is going to actually result in.
