Exene Cervenka Quotes
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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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The martyrologies are catalogues in which are to be found the names of the saints with the days and places of their deaths and, generally, with the distinctive character of their sanctity and with an historic summary of their lives.
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I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
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My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.
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There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is L.A., obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.
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Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies and TV. I'll go back to plays. Even if I crash and burn there, I'll write a novel. That's the great thing about writing is that you don't have to wait for people to give you permission to do it.
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If my feet ever left the ground, my mother would soon put them back down.
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I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.
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They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.
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I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.
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When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.
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I don't consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I'm thrilled to be doing good, if that's what I'm doing.
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I remember when I first came around, the computer-generated stuff was pretty wicked. I was like, 'Wow!' but I feel like then for the longest time, we saw so much of it, after a while, you might as well just be watching an animated movie.
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To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor.
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I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.
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The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
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Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
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The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.
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I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.
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People love real human chemistries and if you can put it on the screen you are going to get people's hearts; you're going to go straight to them. That's one of the secrets of life.
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Never say amen in church if they're capping off a prayer about you.
