Parker Posey Quotes
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Honesty will never break you.
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Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
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I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
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We can only learn to love by loving.
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.
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When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
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In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'
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What it really comes down to, especially in metal, is that the bass needs to cut through, so you go to the pick for that effect. But when you have a certain feel about the music and really dig in to get a big growl, you have to go with the fingers, because you're not going to get it with a pick.
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I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.
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Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?
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I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
