Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (Taj Mahal) Quotes
I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically.
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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can't have the opportunity to see other films.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.
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Most people inside the bureau believe that the blown opportunities to head off 9/11 would not recur today. Even among the FBI's doubters, few disagree that the bureau has come a long way.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
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I studied law before I became a filmmaker, and I actually have a great belief in the justice system and the rule of law. I think it's the thing that separates us from animals. I really believe in the rule of law because it's an attempt to bring rational accountability to human behavior, which has a great capability of becoming irrational.
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I don't want anybody to feel like they're different.
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I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically.
