Rene Ricard Quotes
My work is all that I think about because I spent so many years not doing anything. Therefore, work pleases me, which is success in itself.
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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I always had confidence in my game.
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My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
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The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.
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I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
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A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction.
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Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.
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I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.
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For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
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You always gotta do what you like. If it connects, it's a miracle, but it happened with Die Antwoord.
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But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.
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There is, in the human Breast, a social Affection, which extends to our whole Species.
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Today, with America being a beleaguered global power, in part because of its own mistakes, it is absolutely essential that the American democracy refocuses its concerns towards global issues and does not approach its own specific problems on the basis of, to some extend, self-induced fear.
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I can't take anything seriously.
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It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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How many mental health problems, from drug addiction to self-injurious behavior, start as attempts to cope with the unbearable physical pain of our emotions? If Darwin was right, the solution requires finding ways to help people alter the inner sensory landscape of their bodies. Until recently, this bidirectional communication between body and mind was largely ignored by Western science, even as it had long been central to traditional healing practices in many other parts of the world, notably in India and China. Today it is transforming our understanding of trauma and recovery.
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My work is all that I think about because I spent so many years not doing anything. Therefore, work pleases me, which is success in itself.
