Anton Corbijn Quotes
With a film, you try to keep your vision in it. I think with 'The American' and 'Control' I managed to do that.
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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.
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The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least in mixed company, are features of African American life that predate affirmative action and arise outside of its presence.
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The tone of political assessment has changed. And honestly, the battle for the hearts and minds of the American people has taken on a bit more of a violent and narrow approach.
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What is power without control?
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Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?
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With a film, you try to keep your vision in it. I think with 'The American' and 'Control' I managed to do that.
