Wim Wenders Quotes
I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
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I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
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Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.
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If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.
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That the government's power under the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike by injunction so clearly strengthens the hand of the employer-even though it is used only when a strike threatens the national health, welfare, or safety-is a grave blemish and explains much of union resistance to the Act.
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It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down.
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I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
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I'm getting a little bored by the juxtaposition of American and other cinema. I no longer think this division is as true as it might have been in the 1980s, or the early part of the 90s.
