Henry Rollins Quotes
Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.
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For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
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Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.
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I was anti social, but at the same time, people gravitated to that because they wanted to figure out who I was and why I was how I was.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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… life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.
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There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do.
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Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.
