Rhys Darby Quotes
I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
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I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.
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I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.
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I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.
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I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.
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'I am of no faith,' said Aenea. 'If one defines faith as belief in the supernatural.'
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Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.
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UF is Utilization Flight. That got put in the manifest quite some time ago.
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The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.
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I don't have a big appetite. I don't eat a lot, to be honest - never. I'm a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I'm not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?
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The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it.
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I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not.
