Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes
Creativity is narcissism. Creativity is falling in love with one's self as you create. It's self-indulgent.
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Ever since I was really little, I loved performing and being up on stage, and being the entertainment.
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It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
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'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
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And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.
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So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and I passed the test. And they realized that I was sick enough, and as soon as the liver became available, I got one.
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Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
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Black and ugly as ever, however I stay Coogi down to the socks, rings and watch filled with Rocks.
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I'm very inappropriate, which makes me a problem dinner guest, because at some point during the evening someone inevitably says, 'OK, heh heh heh, OK, too much information! Heh heh heh. Don't go there!' I live there. I bought a house there.
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Toute loi trop souvent transgressée est mauvaise: c'est au législateur à l'abroger ou à la changer.
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What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions.
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I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.
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I think that overall, the position - on a whole host of issues - should always be toward inclusion and equality.
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My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.
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I love a star print. I always get a lurch if I see a nice one.
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If you don't love it, don't touch it.
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Instead of abandoning competition and giving banks protected monopolies once again, the public would be better served by making it easier to close banks when they get into trouble. Instead of making banking boring, let us make it a normal industry, susceptible to destruction in the face of creativity.
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The acceptance of 'Quantico' so far has been really great. At the moment, I'm just straddling two continents far away from each other, with very active careers in both!
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Creativity is narcissism. Creativity is falling in love with one's self as you create. It's self-indulgent.
