Anthony Kiedis Quotes
Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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I've been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author has a specific critique about contemporary society in mind, fiction tends not to be the best means to deliver that critique.
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'There’s a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn’t have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual.'
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The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.
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I really like coming-of-age dramas. It's probably the most intense period in anyone's life, those years before you become an adult. Dramatically, there's so much to explore there. And it's nice to be around young talent coming through.
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Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.
