Devendra Banhart (Devendra Obi Banhart) Quotes
You have to collaborate with the moment and the environment. It kind of was magnified by the house being a studio.
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Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
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I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
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I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
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My friends always laugh because I'm the kind of person who bought the Brooks Brothers school skirt, even though it's not my school's uniform skirt, but just because I liked it. I'm a knee-high socks kind of person.
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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
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As an actress, one of the perks is having access to ridiculously expensive clothing and prancing around on the red carpet. Who wouldn't want to have fun with that?
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And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.
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I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.
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I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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Congress mandated that health care providers in emergency departments and ambulances provide emergency care to anyone in need, including the uninsured and underinsured.
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It struck me that it might be interesting for once to do an almost blue-collar warlock. Somebody who was streetwise, working class, and from a different background than the standard run of comic book mystics. Constantine started to grow out of that.
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My favourite roller coaster is the Millennium Force at Cedar Point in Ohio.
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I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.
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Mexico has not achieved the advances that the population demands or deserves.
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Oh, what could be more delicious than replacing Chuck Grassley on the Senate Agriculture Committee?
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I never write with an actor in mind - never.
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The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother.
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'It is a mistake,' he said, 'to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort. We know that well enough from our experience in the environmental crisis of the twentieth century.'
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The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turn off.
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You have to collaborate with the moment and the environment. It kind of was magnified by the house being a studio.
