Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes
If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
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How lucky am I?
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn't really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys.
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A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.
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I don't like to look typical.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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I don't like having to be pushed into a box.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we don't play Madison Square Garden for this album.
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Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases.
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By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.
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If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
