George Shinn Quotes
We want to make sure, ... that you and the elders of this community will say after all this is over that this was worth it.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
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I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.
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I'm usually listening to Sirius Satellite in the morning. 'The Heat' usually plays good music.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.
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I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Originally, we had a band known as Steely Dan. As we moved away from the band, we got whoever was appropriate for specific tunes. In a lot of cases, we gravitated toward jazz players who had more sophisticated harmonic concepts.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
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When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'
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I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.
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I will never let money from anyone affect what I do.
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Tous les grands poètes deviennent naturellement, fatalement, critiques.
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This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.
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One of the challenges was to make a cinematic movie about literally talking heads and to try to make it feel like something you want to see in a theater.
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It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.
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There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'
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We want to make sure, ... that you and the elders of this community will say after all this is over that this was worth it.
