Captain Beefheart Quotes
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
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The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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We all know Illinois has big challenges. And under Gov. Rauner, things have only gotten worse.
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My men's-underwear print ads are very popular!
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Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in, Beaches, and what they came away with was that song. They turned to their loved ones and said, 'You know, you are the wind beneath my wings!' The song expressed how they felt in a way a simple 'I love you' would not have.
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The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm - the turning of the light. The island knows no other human voices, no other footprints. On the Offshore Lights you can live any story you want to tell yourself, and no one will say you're wrong: not the seagulls, not the prisms, not the wind.
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As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.
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I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
