Ville Valo Quotes
There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting through the job. It's not rocket science. I want to have a good time!
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I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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Two actors who have different motivations and skill sets can work together and be magic. Charles Grodin and Robert DeNiro technically couldn't work more differently, and yet they made 'Midnight Run,' which is a genius comedy.
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Being a physician, you can either treat the symptoms or cure the disease. This Congress has been treating the symptoms. It's time we cure the disease and take care of the problems that are underlying our poor economy.
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Moral: Don't try to Account for Anything.
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When I read 'Watchmen,' it changed my view of so many things. It was the first time I'd read a graphic novel really like that.
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The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.
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There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
