Anton Webern Quotes
Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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Before I turned vegetarian, I used to often cook seafood or my favourite breakfast of eggs and bacon. Now, I love making pulao or rice with lots of spices and vegetables.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
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I think it's absolutely about time that we have as many female leads as male. It's a very exciting time to be an actress.
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'A Pirate Looks at 40,' we had to do that song. I've been covering that forever.
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You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.
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As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.
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I saw a lot of people taking the wrong routes, coming up as a kid, just doing the wrong things.
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I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted.
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I immerse myself in things that meant something to me while I was growing up.
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Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.
