Andrew Dominik Quotes
Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.
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I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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Everything that I have is natural – braid, nails – I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.
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I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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One of the blessings I've had, really, for my entire career, is working with founders of companies, whether it was Bill Ziff at Ziff Davis or with Jerry Yang and David Filo at Yahoo.
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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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'What do I care for the god?' the woman suddenly screamed, catching up her dead child. 'What god is he that takes away my son and leaves me nothing?'
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The first part of this statement is quoted without attribution as early as 1897, and is widely attributed to Irving separately as well as in this joined form, but in research for Wikiquote, no original source has yet been found.
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While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve - and hate will die unborn. Love - and chains are broken.
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People from the country are very simple and loyal. I like that. I prefer to deal with the campesinos rather than the political people in Lima.
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Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.
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He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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I don't mind the sparkle - I think it's kind of a tradition in skating. I don't think the men really need sparkles, but for the women it's part of the glamour of our sport.
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Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite.
