Tanith Lee Quotes
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I've always been a huge reggae fan.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.
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A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
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I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
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I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.
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A lot of my friends send me Snapchats of when they're in the club, and they're like, 'It's your song!'
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
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This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really.
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I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.
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The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
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Pirates have always fascinated me.