Raymond Pettibon Quotes
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
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'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
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If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before.
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Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.
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The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.
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I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting 'Heaven' it was truly guerrilla film-making.
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Sometimes there's a vacuum that has to be covered.
