Raymond Pettibon Quotes
I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power than God does, in whatever form he has, if he exists, because I can work without the overarching ambition of wanting to rule over everything. I can work just for the heck of it.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
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A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
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What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who's been a teenager. We haven't all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we've all been 16 and awkward.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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No," I snapped. "I mean, no. I'm answering. I'm just collecting my response." Another few seconds passed. Is there a time limit for this?" he asked. I shot him a look. "Just wondering.
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I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power than God does, in whatever form he has, if he exists, because I can work without the overarching ambition of wanting to rule over everything. I can work just for the heck of it.
