Perry Farrell Quotes
I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
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I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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When I got the paperwork for Superstars, and I saw they asked what size swimsuit I wear, I had a hot flash, nearly broke into cold sweats and hired a trainer immediately.
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I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.
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Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.
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You're not a rock n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.
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The cliché of that sort of wasted, renegade, drugged-out musician of the '70s is kind of dead and gone now. And I suppose that a lot of people still keep relying on that, or some kind of image to perpetuate something that they think they're supposed to sound like. But that kind of takes you away from real inspiration and, you know, real artistic discovery of the individual.
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I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.
