Devendra Banhart (Devendra Obi Banhart) Quotes
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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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I get pretty grumpy about TV.
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There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.
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For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.
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When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose.
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Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.
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It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.
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I'd been in Hollywood for five years before I started writing 'The Guild.' I worked enough to pay all my bills. So I was very lucky in that respect. Most people don't make a living acting.
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Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.
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It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.
