Ari Marcopoulos Quotes
I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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I didn't even know I could sing or write songs. I didn't have that education. But people shouldn't think they can look down on someone like me, because I've had the same success as others, sold the same amount of records, if not more. They shouldn't think that because I'm just from 'The X Factor,' I'm not credible or respected as much.
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War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
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I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
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I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
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I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.
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I like movies in particular, on video or T.V. I have lots of old favorites, like Danny Kaye in 'The Court Jester' or 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' or James Stewart in 'Winchester '73.' But I also like a lot of modern films.
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
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The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.
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But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.
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Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
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I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.
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We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
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I'm not working now, so I'm sort of facing the unknown.
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Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
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I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.
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In the traditional Ikebana things always have to be asymmetrical, because in this they look more natural and balanced.
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The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.
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I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.
