Antonio Machado Quotes
It is good knowing that glasses are to drink from; the bad thing is not to know what thirst is for.

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I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
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I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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The small are always dependent on the great; they are 'small' precisely because they think they are independent. The great thinker is one who can hear what is greatest in the work of other 'greats' and who can transform it in an original manner.
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It came to a point where there was that curiosity factor: Was he going to hit 80? I'm sure it went through his head.
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The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
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It is good knowing that glasses are to drink from; the bad thing is not to know what thirst is for.