H. R. Giger Quotes
Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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Music is my release.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.
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I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
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Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.
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He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
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We long for a life we never had but of which we seem to have a clear memory; a life in wich there is no longing.
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Some people would say my paintings show a future world and maybe they do, but I paint from reality. I put several things and ideas together, and perhaps, when I have finished, it could show the future.
