Barry Sonnenfeld Quotes
We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I do not believe in planning.
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The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.
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I love watching Marty Scorsese's films, but they always make me feel terrible about being a man.
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A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.
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We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.
