Barry Sonnenfeld Quotes
We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.
Quotes to Explore
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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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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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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'm interested in exploring how an individual maintains a sense of power in a world that tends to make individuals feel powerless.
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The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.
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They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.
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No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.
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God kills thy comforts from no other design but to kill thy corruptions; wants are ordained to kill wantonness, poverty is appointed to kill pride, reproaches are permitted to destroy ambition.
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We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.
