Anton Corbijn Quotes

There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD.

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• I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• I always do my interviews face to face.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Always
  • Face
  • Interviews

• I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Up
  • Age
  • Child

• I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Today
  • Democracy
  • Picture

• The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • South
  • Backbone

• The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Acting

• Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Book
  • Think
  • Australia

• From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Violence
  • Beauty
  • Cowboy

• Zef is, you're poor, but you're fancy. You're poor, but you're sexy; you've got style.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • You
  • Style
  • Sexy

• When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Lost
  • First
  • Vegas

• I have so many friends and obligations, and I want to go out and support people. But we eat at home.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • People
  • Home
  • Friends

• Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having democracy?

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Democracy
  • Challenge
  • Professional

• 'Cooking Lucky' is a show for guys - or girls - or really for anyone who is all thumbs in the kitchen and needs some help cooking meals that are so incredibly impressive they make it look like you've been slaving in the kitchen all day when in reality, they are so effortless to put together that even a moron can do it.

  

  Eden Riegel
  • Together
  • Help
  • Reality

• My last book, 'The Language of Flowers,' I wrote completely on naptime, when my little kids were asleep.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Language

• In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Think
  • Party
  • Religious

• You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • You
  • Know
  • Too Much

• I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Work
  • Love
  • Start

• I think 'Heroine' was Kareena Kapoor's best ever role of her career.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Think
  • Career
  • Best

• The guy who runs Big Day Out doesn't like us for some reason; I don't even know why. We do all the other festivals, and we enquired about it. Who knows, maybe he'll eventually crack, but maybe not. We're just going to keep knocking on his door late at night saying, 'Come on, dude!'

  

  Benji Madden Good Charlotte
  • Night
  • Reason
  • Festivals

• I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

  

  Big Boi
  • Trying
  • Knowledge
  • Food

• Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Confused

• The Hebrew Bible, while firmly opposing pagan sexual practices, nevertheless celebrates man's and woman's desire for each other as divinely designed.

  

  Meir Soloveichik
  • Desire
  • Bible

• There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD.

  

  Anton Corbijn