Marc Blucas Quotes
Most of the time, actors respond to the thing that's so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
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If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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'Grace' is basically a death prayer. Not something of sorrow, but of just casting away any fear of death. No relief will come - you really just have to stew in your life until it's time to go. But sometimes, somebody else's faith in you can do wonders.
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Most of the time, actors respond to the thing that's so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.
