Anton Corbijn Quotes
A lot of scripts that I was given I didn't feel were right for me, because I didn't feel anything for them - I didn't feel like I was going to change in life and start directing.
Quotes to Explore
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post - then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
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I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.
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Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they. But Romeo and Juliet, if a wall be built between them, do not remain idiotically pressing their faces against its opposite sides like the magnet and the filings with the card. Romeo soon finds a circuitous way, by scaling the wall or otherwise, of touching Juliet's lips directly. With the filings the path is fixed; whether it reaches the end depends on accidents. With the lover it is the end which is fixed, the path may be modified indefinitely.
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Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.
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A lot of scripts that I was given I didn't feel were right for me, because I didn't feel anything for them - I didn't feel like I was going to change in life and start directing.
