Harold Budd Quotes
I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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I never said I'm not a feminist! I wrote one column where I was being sarcastic, and I called myself a 'wombist'. Now which sane person would say that 'wombist' is a better term than feminist? I was being sarcastic, and perhaps it was my fault in not getting the point across as clearly as I would have liked to. I don't think there's any doubt.
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I still pinch myself that I ended up in Hollywood. And I am still surprised at the fans.
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
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I told my extremely conservative, uber-traditional Korean father, 'Hey, Dad, I know what I want to do for the rest of my life. I want to be an actor.'
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Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
