Casey Affleck (Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt) Quotes
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As a filmmaker whose first film was made with the DIY tools of digital cinema, I love how the democratization of the filmmaking process and platforms like YouTube enables people to tell stories that in previous generations simply could not be told.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.
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I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.
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Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
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Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi.
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I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
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I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time
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My mother had abandoned the family, so grandmother raised me. And she was instrumental in that she taught me that the world is a glorious place. She taught me to embrace humanity. And she'd say there's never an excuse for joy. And to be thankful.
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I'm house obsessed, a house voyeur. Always have been.
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Donald Westlake's lean prose and deadpan delivery are engaging, as always.
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Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
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People say, 'Did you violate Heaven?' Well, God is down here, too. If you believe in God, you believe in God here as well as 240,000 miles away.
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Certainly, people like Gaga have introduced a new type of hat-wearing.
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Whether it's coming from FDR or it's coming from Ronald Reagan, if the idea is right for the times then we're gonna apply it. And things that don't work we're gonna get rid of.
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He's got a big heart, and he challenges guys. He gets up in guys' (faces) and makes guys play harder. I like coaches like that. He's emotional and enthusiastic about the game.
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That, darling, is the only thing that counts for someone to see more in you than you ever imagined was there.
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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
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Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.
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What can I but enumerate old themes?
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Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories are startling, nerve wracking, provocative: she combines Angela Carter's beautiful style with Patricia Highsmith's malevolent atmospheres. Smyth shatters clichs and dismisses mere sociology. She knows that pleasure is besieged by terror. She tells us what we don't want to know, but need to know. Smyth's writing disturbs us, enrichingly, because truth can never be at peace with language.
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My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion.
