Anton Corbijn Quotes
I wanted to make a film as an artist, and it's going to have to find an audience, you know. I don't know how big the audience will be.
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I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.
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Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
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Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.
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Orson Welles was lazy. He was a late bloomer.
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My parents were very artistic, but busy.
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I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.
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In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
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When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.
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I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
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You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.
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The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
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If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
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For the first ten years after I got out of graduate school, I studied success. I read every book I could get my hands on and took every training I could find, and that allowed me to become an expert in this area. I learned how to create high self-esteem and success in my own life and in the lives of others.
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I allowed Rick Santorum to express views and ideas that the American people never would have had expressed.
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I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.
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And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.
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I'd love to play Hamlet.
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I remember seeing the Colosseum for the first time when I was a young boy. It left a lasting impression on me.
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I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.
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I'd done 'Peter Pan' in a little pre-K class or whatever.
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A casting director who'd cast me in 'Assassins' sent a video to Kevin Reynolds, the director, and Mel Gibson, whose company is producing '187.' Then I went in and auditioned, and a few hours later, they called me.
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I wanted to make a film as an artist, and it's going to have to find an audience, you know. I don't know how big the audience will be.
