Anton Corbijn Quotes
I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the right person for; because if you've never made a film, you're not taught how to make a film, and you feel like you lack skills.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
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The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
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I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
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Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.
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I think that building any product that has a lot of user loyalty is a bit like making a sequel to a great movie or video game - people generally want 'more of the same thing, except better and different.'
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
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What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African music. If you're playing it like it's an echo of the past, it would be a lot less exciting, but this music lives today.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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The only way I'll ever run a marathon is if I'm involved in the administration.
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What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.
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The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least.
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The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.
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The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.
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I am 84 years old and have not retired because I feel I have something to contribute.
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Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.
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We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.
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It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.
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I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the right person for; because if you've never made a film, you're not taught how to make a film, and you feel like you lack skills.
