Richard Stanley Quotes
South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn't find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K.
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My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.
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I think, No. 1, I still have a long way to go.
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I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.
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I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.
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I don't want to make music that is hot now; I want to make music that is hot forever.
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All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.
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My parents were incredibly inclusive.
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Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.
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Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.
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Now could you please ask these idiots to stop pointing their bullets at me? It's terribly wasteful.
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It's the heart that really matters in the end.
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When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.
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God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.
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Antifa are the left-wing version of Nazis. They are very violent; they are terrible people. They cause a ruckus and property damage.
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I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.
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The most subversive people are those who ask questions.
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If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It’s hard to go back to the original shape.
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When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that is generally described, in a pejorative sense, as grotesque. Of course, I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.... Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
