Henry Rollins Quotes
I think there is something very interesting about people who live day to day in an environment where they could get taken out by a wild animal. There has to be some kind respect that is derived from that relationship.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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I didn't want to do something typical.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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I am happy in Paris.
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There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.
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I don't need to be a frontman all the time, and in fact, the older I get, the less of an urge it is inside me to play that role. I've still got it inside me, and I do occasionally allow it out.
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Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
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I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.
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I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.
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Many years ago, I was a producer on a movie called 'My Dog Skip.' Willie Morris, the great southern writer, had written the book. We had adapted it and taken 17 years of his life and compressed it into one year.
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I enjoy seeing people have fun.
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At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.
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I think there is something very interesting about people who live day to day in an environment where they could get taken out by a wild animal. There has to be some kind respect that is derived from that relationship.
