Doug Fieger (Douglas Lars Fieger) Quotes
It could've been made thirty years ago or forty-five years ago actually, or it could've been made last week. And, I think the level of our craft was such that we're appreciated, at leased by fans if not critics. Critics have never appreciated our band.
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When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.
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To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.
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I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are just a little kid.
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Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
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You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.
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It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.
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Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
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To me, I have my friends who I've known my whole life, and I can count them on one hand. They're people I went to school with, my mum's friends' daughters. You know?
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Music is about textures as well as melody.
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I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.
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Fall Out Boy never pretended that we were anything but pop-rock.
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I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
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Fashion once meant dresses and heels, and I didn't know why I'd want to be dressed that way. Now I'm like, 'Oh my God, those Saint Laurent boots!' Those are not words I thought I'd ever say. A beautiful suit is nice. I get fashion now. In fact, I love it.
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Always roll up the sleeves on your shirt. It gives the impression that you're working, even if you're not.
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What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.
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I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.
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But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
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It's weird: making a movie is like life compacted into three months. You have these very intense relationships with people, and you talk to them every day - your editor, the casting people, music people, your actors - then it ends. It's like a circus life.
Dito Montiel -
I'm not a great band member; I'm more of a band leader.
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I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.
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It could've been made thirty years ago or forty-five years ago actually, or it could've been made last week. And, I think the level of our craft was such that we're appreciated, at leased by fans if not critics. Critics have never appreciated our band.
