H. R. Giger Quotes
You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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We care about margins.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
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I hate the domestic life.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
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Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'
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I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.
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I'm not a risk taker physically. I just have no interest in swinging myself off a mountaintop or parachute gliding or skiing down a totally vertical drop. These things don't interest me in the slightest, but I get so caught up in the color or the texture of the sounds of something. That's so funny to me.
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After I graduated from Brandeis, I took all the money I had in the world, which was $5,000, and I made a short film. I made every mistake you could possibly make. It was a total disaster as a piece of work, and yet, you know, it was ambitious in some way.
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We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?
