Xander Berkeley Quotes
I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
J. G. Ballard
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
Randeep Hooda
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
Flume
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
Sally Hawkins
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
Lady Randolph Churchill
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I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'
C. C. H. Pounder
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
Barbara Corcoran
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.
Irvin D. Yalom
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
Fidel Castro
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
Cameron Dallas
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
Edmund White
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
Rachele Brooke Smith
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
Natasha Lyonne
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
P. J. O'Rourke
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My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.
Iggy Azalea
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
Natalia Kills
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
Mae West
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I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.
Mandy Patinkin
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My dad's a pastor; I grew up in the church, and it's really easy to just have a healthy respect for what some people might be sensitive to.
Brett Young
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Paradise is to love many things with a passion.
Pablo Picasso
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This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to the sounds I'm working with. Every song on this album I stand behind; I feel like I have a close relationship with them. There are older songs where I can feel myself writing a story, so this is the first album where I'm proud of every lyric.'
Gotye
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'Liv and Maddie' didn't start out as a twin show. I actually played a different character in the beginning, and it was neither of the twins.
Dove Cameron
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My first love was the sound of guitar.
Boz Scaggs The Steve Miller Band
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I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.
Xander Berkeley